Foam mushroom
When foam mushroom , a collection of whitish to pinkish red feinblasigem foam located at the mouth of corpses, it is a very medical sign of death by drowning , which is characterized by respiratory movements and thus related aspirations as so. Vital reaction against oral (and possibly Nose) by the post-mortem reduction of the lung volume. Foam can also come out of the respiratory orifices in the event of death from choking and throttling.
The last vain strained breathing movements lead to a fine-bubble whirling of the aspirated water with the remaining air in the bronchial tree and the increased bronchial secretion , the protein richness of which leads to a solidification of the foam fungus. If you drown in salt water, you will also find the fluid from the pulmonary edema .
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- ↑ Wolfgang Schwerd: Asphyxiation (lack of oxygen). In: Wolfgang Schwerd (Hrsg.): Brief textbook of forensic medicine for doctors and lawyers. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne-Lövenich, 3rd, revised and supplemented edition 1979, ISBN 3-7691-0050-6 , 71-84, here: p. 74 f.
- ↑ Bernd Karger, B. Brinkmann, B. Madea: Manual of forensic medicine: Volume 1 . Ed .: Peter Scheib. 1st edition. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00259-6 , pp. 1344 ( online in Google book search).