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What are the symptoms of CO poisoning?
CO poisoning mimics many common illnesses, such as food poisoning. It is most frequently misdiagnosed as a flu-like syndrome. Always consult with your health care provider; ask questions and get answers.
The following is a list of common symptoms.
· headaches · loss of hearing · dizziness · depression · blurry vision
· cardiac arrest · disorientation· respiratory failure · weakness
· vomiting · coma · painful discomfort · loss of consciousness ·muscle aches,
· soreness · memory disorders · seizures · nausea · rapid heartbeat
· chronic tiredness · slurry speech · additional symptoms of illnesses
This list is not meant to serve as a diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning. It is meant to provide general information on known poisoning symptoms. Oxidative stress causes a chain reaction in the body due to the interruption of oxygen intake. Get out and stay out of CO atmosphere’s.
If you have symptoms of CO poisoning, get tested by your health care provider as soon as possible. Be prepared though, they might not even be giving carbon monoxide a thought as a possible cause of your symptoms.
Carbon monoxide is easily measured in people with non-invasive (no blood work) procedures that effectively reduce diagnosis time and inaugurates oxygen treatments and therapy expeditiously. Be prepared though, many health care providers may be unaware of the relationship between many of the symptoms presented to them and carbon monoxide exposure. Testing of patients for elevated carboxyhemoglobin levels will increase awareness. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News links
How I Spent $100000 in One Day – The Dangers of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Newstalkkgvo
We had a water heater that malfunctioned during the night while we were sleeping and it leaked out deadly, odorless carbon monoxide gas. I woke up because I felt sick and made it around to the other side of the bed and passed out from the gas.
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Salt Lake City family rushed to hospital after CO poisoning
Salt Lake Tribune
A Salt Lake City family of six was rushed to the hospital Monday morning after emergency medical responders found them sick inside a home that registered dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide. Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Jasen Asay ........ Questar personnel called to the scene determined the source of the carbon monoxide was a natural gas-fueled water heater. Asay said the water heater was deactivated and will need to be replaced. The family did not have carbon monoxide detectors in the home, Asay said.
Critics blast state plan to clean up Utah's winter pollution
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Air Quality Board voted on a dozen regulations aimed at PM 2.5 pollution, microscopic soot that sometimes gets trapped in Utah's mountain valleys in winter and causes health problems, from scratchy throats and asthma attacks to premature death ...
Health of Arctic Alaskans must be considered in federal energy strategy
Alaska Dispatch
We have tons of emissions changing our air quality and we can improve the risks we take by learning more about the petroleum process and speaking out to help our families breathe better. There are many who have bad breathing due to smoking also, yet ...
Deforestation and Global Warming
HealthNewsDigest.com
By most accounts, deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world's roads. According to the World Carfree Network (WCN), cars and trucks ...
Global Warming Cause Felt by Satellites and Space Junk
Space.com
Rising carbon dioxide levels at the edge of space are apparently reducing the pull that Earth's atmosphere has on satellites and space junk, researchers say. The findings suggest that manmade increases in carbon dioxide might be having effects on the ... For more, in addition to this article, see - Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
Carbon monoxide charity in funding crisis
Runcorn and Widnes World
Crusading Runcorn mum Lynn Griffiths, aged 52, launched Carbon Monoxide Awareness in April 2005, after her family suffered the devastating effects of undiagnosed poisoning at their former home. A partially blocked flu had remained undetected despite ... If you listened to their influence, they may have saved your life. Now, you can help save their mission.
Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com
Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:
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Emergency Medicine Ireland - By Andy Neill
Carbon monoxide is produced whenever there is incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. In house fires there's frequently more burning that there is oxygen so lots of CO is produced. It is thought to be the commonest cause of death in house ...
Aviators – note:
(PDF) Federal Aviation Administration warning; Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace
Carbon Dioxide earth atmospheric update levels;
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
· Heart rescue video using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
· Carbon Monoxide Survivor
A website made by poisoning survivors that brings a view that can only come from those that know what it is like to have been poisoned - as well as live with the long term impact.
· Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-five U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
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American Red Cross - disaster relief
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
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