Home Carbon Monoxide Poisoning – Prevention and Detection
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is the number one cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in the United States, causing over 500 deaths, and 20,000 injuries annually. Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas if it’s inhaled in sufficient quantities. Carbon monoxide gas has no colour, taste, odour, and is totally invisible.
Carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms are often mistaken for flu symptoms. Symptoms common to CO poisoning are dizziness, headaches, nausea, weakness, lethargy. Young infants may feed poorly or feel irritable.
Common Sources of Carbon Monoxide in the Home
The most common sources of carbon monoxide in most residential homes are:
- A fireplace (wood-burning or gas)
- Portable gas or kerosene heaters
- Car left running in an attached garage
- A clogged chimney
- An improperly installed kitchen range or vent
- A water heater vent pipe that is disconnected or is corroded
- Using a barbecue grill inside the home or garage
- A cracked or loose furnace exchanger
- Running a generator inside the home or attached garage
How To Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in the Home
The following steps should be taken in the home to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning:
- Never leave your car running in the garage, especially if the garage is attached to the house.
- In order to ensure that your chimney and vents are not clogged, have no cracks, and are not beginning to rust, get them inspected regularly.
- Always use a barbecue grill outside your home, never inside.
- Always make sure that you use a generator outside your house or attached garage.
- Ensure that you regularly get your heating system inspected and serviced.
- When installing any stove appliances, ensure that the stove’s manufacturers recommendations are followed.
- Ensure that the room is well ventilated whenever you use a portable kerosene or gas heater.
Install a Carbon Monoxide Alarm in Your Home
It is recommended that you install a carbon monoxide alarm on each level of your home to detect and warn you about dangerous carbon monoxide levels in your home. Carbon monoxide concentrations are measured in parts per million (ppm), which is the number of CO molecules per million molecules of air.
A carbon monoxide alarm should use an electrochemical CO sensor, which is the most accurate technology available to detect carbon monoxide. A carbon monoxide alarm should have a LED light or a display screen to indicate that the unit has power. A CO alarm should also have a test button to test that the unit is functioning correctly.
Carbon monoxide alarms should be battery powered, or mains powered with a battery backup. Having a carbon monoxide alarm powered by mains electricity is useless in a power failure. When buying a CO alarm, check that it has some sort of alarm or indicator that lets you know when the batteries within the unit need replacing.
The audible alarm for any CO alarm unit should be quite loud. The alarm should be loud enough to awake someone from deep sleep. Lastly, a carbon monoxide alarm should be UL approved – the Underwriters Laboratories specifies response times for CO alarms as follows:
- 70 ppm – sound alarm within 60-240 minutes
- 150 ppm – sound alarm within 10-50 minutes
- 400 ppm – sound alarm within 4-15 minutes
Besides carbon monoxide, the other deadly gas found within homes in the United States is radon gas.In the United States, radon is second leading cause of lung cancer, behind smoking.In the United States, its estimated that there are about 20,000 deaths per year from lung cancer, as a result of people inhaling radon gas. For information on radon gas and on detecting radon gas levels in the home, visit Home Security Buff.
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