How would you know you are being poisoned with carbon monoxide? What are the common symptoms?
“The most common symptoms of CO poisoning are headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. High levels of CO inhalation can cause loss of consciousness and death. Unless suspected, CO poisoning can be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms mimic other illnesses. People who are sleeping or intoxicated can die from CO poisoning before ever experiencing symptoms,” according to CDC.
Symptoms may vary depending on how much toxic fumes have entered the body already.
Mild Symptoms: headache, nausea, vomiting, dizziness and blurred vision.
Moderate Symptoms: confusion, syncope, chest pain, weakness, dyspnea or shortness of breath, tachycardia or rapid heartbeat, tachypnea or abnormal fast breathing, and rhabdomyolis or the breaking down of muscle cells and releasing of contents into the bloodstream.
Severe Symptoms: palpitations, dysrhythmias, hypotension, myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, noncardiogenic pulmonary edema, seizures, coma
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