CO Awareness Capmaign Leaflets

You can download a copy of the latest advice leaflet from CO Awareness by going to the 'Useful Documents' box at the very bottom of this page.

An unusual side-effect of CO.

This recent post on prnewswire.com lists an unusual consumer danger from CO. It is apparently sometimes used to make packaged meat appear 'fresher' (i.e. pinker) than it really is!

You can see a warning video animation about this here.

'Delayed postanoxic encepalopathy'

Another name for 'DNS', or Delayed Neuropsychiatric Sequelae.
A case report from the Emergency Medicine Journal (http://emj.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/21/2/250).

pdf copy available by clicking here.

CO messes with your head - it's official.

It's quite well known that students are at high risk of CO exposure. What is less well known is that they are sometimes put deliberately at risk by their professors!
This valuable piece of research (Archives of Neurology 1998; 55 (6), 845) shows just how damaging low-level CO exposure is to the CNS. But I'm not sure it should have received ethical approval!

By going to this link to my public folder on box.net you can retrieve a pdf copy of this paper.

Forgotten anything lately... ?

Many people exposed to CO over long periods report problems with short-term memory as a consequence.
Could this paper have any connection with this phenomenon ?

CO Awareness Meeting at House of Lords

Lynn Griffiths of CO Awareness organised a meeting at the House of Lords on March 7th. This was a very useful starting point for discussion around current issues.
Dr. Ben Croxford presented the results of his survey into CO in domestic environments. You can see those results by clicking here, or by downloading the pdf file directly from the 'Useful Documents' box at the very bottom of this page.

One lady at the meeting was poisoned for 18 months longer than she need have been, all because a doctor in A&E told her that oil-fired appliances could not be a source of CO !

The main thrust of the meeting was discussion of the dangers of chronic, low-level exposure to CO. The gas is a potent toxin, and appears to favour the central and peripherous nervous systems when the victim is exposed to low levels over a period of time. More research in this area is certainly warranted.

The government pamphlet Indoor Air Pollution - Carbon Monoxide ends with the line 'Ask your doctor for advice if you feel ill'. Would you know what advice to give?

Inexpensive CO alarms

Calendar, the Yorkshire regional ITV news programme, has a campaign currently running around CO safety.
On this page there are details of local manufacturers and distributors of inexpensive domestic CO alarms and detectors.