How to protect Against Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Gas Emergencies: Transco Tel. 0800 111999
You can't see it, smell it or taste it - But CO can kill You.
A young 5th year medical student was unconscious for over two hours and nearly died from it in November 1995. CO can give you headaches, nausea, exhaustion, drowsiness, dizziness, vomiting, 'flu like symptoms, palpitations, pains in the chest, collapse without necessarily losing consciousness, followed by unconsciousness and perhaps death. Doctor John Henry, then Consultant Physician at the National Poisons Unit, surveyed 200 General Practitioners. He sent them symptoms of CO poisoning. Although many sensible suggestions were made, not one GP suggested CO as a cause of these symptoms.
©Stephanie Trotter 1999
