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Do you need carbon monoxide detector?
You probably saw those Carbon Monoxide detectors at a hardware store. Why would you need one of them?
Carbon monoxide is a dangerous gas. it binds to hemoglobin (the protein that delivers oxygen in you blood). Since it binds to the same place on th molecule where oxygen should go, then the oxygen deliver to your organs from your lungs is going to zero. Basically your brain, organs and tissue choke up.
What are the situations when you can get carbon monoxide poisoning?
Practically, it is any situation where a carbonated fuel is not completely burned out. The gas is going into a closed space. And now you are sitting in this space too.
For example, when you use your gas oven to heat a room (it is not designed for anything other than cooking food). Another case is when you use some gas-powered equipment in a garage - generators, chain saw, lawn mower etc.)
The same goes for grills and portable stoves. Also some faulty fireplaces, furnaces, heaters may produce carbon monoxide. Especially it is true if chimneys are blocked by some soot.
And of cause the car is a typical carbon monoxide producer especially if is run in a closed unventilated space for a long time.
Hence , yeah carbon monoxide defector is a useful gadget at your house.
The carbon monoxide poisoning is dangerous also because the symptoms are developing gradually and not are so obvious in the beginning until it is too late.
Cherry-red lips is a classical sign of the poisoning. Other signs would include headaches, nausea, weakness, dizziness, difficulties with breathing. If you had this , tell your doctor.
First help is actually to get to a fresh air immediately.
Recent studies suggest that carbon monoxide poisoning has long-term consequences and may increase risk of heart attack.
Sometimes, on a cold evening whole family whole family goes to sleep and never wake up in the morning. This is when a carbon monoxide detector could save the life.
www.symptomat.com | | Author: | Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD | | System: | General | | Subject: | Monoxide | | Abstract: | Carbon monoxide is a dangerous gas. it binds to hemoglobin (the protein that delivers oxygen in you blood). Since it binds to the same place on th molecule where oxygen should go, then the oxygen deliver to your organs from your lungs is going to zero. Basically your brain, organs and tissue choke up.
| | Website: | http//www.kavokin.com | | Time: | 11:59 | | Reference: | http://www.rdoctor.com | | Reference 2: | |
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