“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, bio link)
Too little testing, too many people suffer symptoms without knowing what the cause is. Perhaps if the health care provider was better educated and took carbon monoxide seriously, less would suffer.
To understand carbon monoxide poisoning, one must know the culture of the victim. The patient, like ourselves are inhabitants of a combustion culture. Situations where people breath in combustion gases and experience oxygen displacement health symptoms are quite common, yet these conditions diagnosed as CO poisoning are not commonly recognized. When industry holds a financial grip on a community, the community often caves in and accepts the health hazards. When this happens, the health community has got to step up and not ignore the health symptoms carbon monoxide and other nasty combustion gas poisonings presents.
This publication repeats the question at every turn, “Could this health symptom be influenced or be compounded by carbon monoxide poisoning?” Measure the air, measure the complainant or victim. As we prepare for the upcoming winter be advised that the incidences of “reported” CO poisonings are projected to increase. If you doubt this, please visit the headlines posted during the North American winter months the past few years in this news blog. Don’t let this be your carbon monoxide alarm.
Health care provider - If you want to know what normal levels of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb%) are for a patient, you are going to have to have comparative and timely test samples. A change in blood pressure alerts the technician and physician to a problem; a COHb% deviation accompanying presented symptoms would also give them notice.
Perhaps if the health care community began actually testing people in industrial areas that presented known, common symptoms of CO poisoning they may raise an important voice to the cause. But the lack of testing patients who present symptoms daily only demonstrates the degree of ignorance that is inherent in that practice and that there is more to CO poisoning than acute exposures. What is the value in not testing? Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO News Links
Is money more important than the health of others? Apparently to some.
Old Town area residents voice frustrations over plans to increase mill ...
Bangor Daily News
Exposures to carbon monoxide — a toxic, odorless, colorless gas — can cause harm to the heart and central nervous system, but several residents at Tuesday's meeting said they were concerned about potential odor and adverse health conditions caused by ...
Warning over carbon monoxide
Swindon Advertiser
While carbon monoxide poisoning has symptoms such as mild headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and drowsiness, they are not always enough to raise the alarm. There have been a number of incidents elsewhere in the country where people ...
West Virgina Law Requiring CO Detectors in Certain Buildings Goes into Effect Sept. 1
WSAZ-TV
A deadly carbon monoxide leak has sparked some big changes in West Virginia. Dozens of hotel guests became ill and one man died when high CO levels leaked from a pool pump into the Holiday Inn Express in South Charleston in January.
Updates: Verdicts – Accidental Poisonings in U.K.
Father and son die from carbon monoxide poisoning
Mirror.co.uk
A dad and his son died from carbon monoxide poisoning as they fought to pump flood water from their rugby club, an inquest heard yesterday. A dad and his son died from carbon monoxide poisoning as they fought to pump flood water from their rugby club, ...
Teenagers died after portable gas heater leaked carbon monoxide
Mirror.co.uk
Two teenage friends died in a garden summerhouse after a portable gas heater leaked carbon monoxide. Two teenage friends died in a garden summerhouse after a portable gas heater leaked carbon monoxide. Jordan Ball, 18, was found by his parents with ...
· Heart Rescue Now This link takes you to a very short video that is a practical demonstration on the proper usage of an AED. This video is tastefully done & demonstrates the step-by-step way one might be able to save a life.
· 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
Google Maps to reference the locations referenced in these Internet headlines.
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
Every Day is Carbon Monoxide Safety Day!
