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Beware, carbon monoxide will kill you!

This unseen, non smelling killer is produced from faulty gas appliances. The gas has no smell and you are unaware of its existence, you don't cough, or sneeze, you just drift off to sleep and die.

Carbon monoxide will not be detected by your household smoke detectors.

But did you know that if you are one of the lucky ones that lives, you may never return to the healthy state you were in before you were poisoned?

Carbon monoxide, chemical name CO, is the same gas that is produced in car exhaust gasses. If you smoke tobacco products, you are suffering from some form of carbon monoxide poisoning.

It poisons the body by attaching itself to your blood cells instead of oxygen, thus starving the blood supply of oxygen. The oxygen clings to blood cells in the normal operation of your breathing, but your blood cells cannot differentiate between oxygen and carbon monoxide.
Only minute doses of the gas can be harmful, because it is 5 times more sticky than oxygen.

Your good blood cells are now carrying a poison around the body, these cells are now useless, because they cannot release their clinging molecules and they die.

There is no quick fix by flooding your lungs with oxygen, you cannot just wash it away. The contaminated cells remain circulating for long periods of time, whilst your body is starving itself of precious oxygen.

Some of the irreversible effects from carbon monoxide poisoning are; brain damage, blindness, lethargy and of course death.

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The Carbon Monoxide & Gas Safety Society had its 11th anniversary on the 25th January 2006.

The official figures are not encouraging.
Over 50 deaths per year, due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Over 300 near misses per year, many of which have resulted in permanent damage.

But because the UK government does not check for carbon monoxide poisoning, as a cause of death, the real figures are masked. With 3500 annual deaths unaccounted for, we must ask the question, how many of these are really from CO poisoning?

If you think that your gas appliances are fine, then think again. In 1996 a study was conducted by the health and housing group, they found that a staggering 1 in every 20 homes suffered from some form of carbon monoxide problem, that equates to nearly three million people at risk!

There are some simple, and cost effective solutions available for the home, please take a look at these here.