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Why Carbon Monoxide Is So Dangerous

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RayWohlfarth
RayWohlfarth Member Posts: 2,037
edited June 26 in THE MAIN WALL

In this weeks video, I talk about the dangers and effects of carbon monoxide exposure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsNy6Cnfx_o
Ray Wohlfarth
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Bob Harper

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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 18,722

    That's why CO is called the "silent killer".

    I bet most of us have CO stories………

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  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,685

    Great scientific explanation Ray. It's deeply troubling to me how few, home and building owners, take active Carbon Monoxide issues in their living/working space, seriously. I find residential homeowners even less so. Whether it's in the budget or not, we install ALL boilers - Small and Big - with a Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Interlock. Mad Dog

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  • RayWohlfarth
    RayWohlfarth Member Posts: 2,037

    @Steamhead yes sir scary I brought my co detector on vacation to check the hotel rooms lol

    @Mad Dog_2 thank you

    Ray Wohlfarth
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    Mad Dog_2
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 17,500
    edited June 29

    I wonder if hotels actually have more of a CO problem or if they get more press than a CO incident in a single family home? I'm sure they are worse than most other commercial buildings but maybe not worse than residential.

  • Bob Harper
    Bob Harper Member Posts: 1,180

    I always wear a personal CO alarm. I get teased about that, but you know the best part about getting teased? You have to be alive for teasing to matter. A nice, quick overview from Ray. As a retired paramedic who has taken the NCI course more times than I can remember allow me to interject this about symptoms: They are wholly unreliable prognosticators and virtually never manifest until you have been significantly exposed. The exception is chronic low level CO. While CO itself is not cumulative in the body but clears at a half life of 3-5 hrs. depending upon your sources, the sequelae, meaning the long term effects from cellular hypoxia can be. There is a growing body of evidence for chronic low level CO sufferers becoming so debilitated they become non-ambulatory but bedridden. How many people take drugs for mood swings, ADHD, psychosis, etc. when it is really CO? How about those mysterious allergies that fail to show up on testing? Chronic headaches diagnosed as idiopathic (meaning they don't have a clue). How about your mental focus, memory, reaction times, and cognition? Think of CO poisoning as suffocating because that's the net effect to the cells- hypoxia. You need O2 for Krebs Cycle (Citric acid cycle) for cellular aerobic (oxygen) metabolism. Another side effect of CO is the garbage piling up at the curb. Hemoglobin cannot assist your blood plasma with removing the metabolic wastes from cellular metabolism, such as lactic and pyruvic acid. Thus, these metabolic acids damage cells as well as cause metabolic acidosis to some degree.

    GGrossMad Dog_2

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