How do we first aid carbon monoxide poisoning

    Carbon monoxide poisoning

1. Contact reaction: symptoms of headache, dizziness, heart palpitation, nausea and other symptoms can disappear after inhaling fresh air.

2. Mild poisoning: severe headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea and vomiting; Mild to moderate consciousness disorder, but no coma.

3. Moderate poisoning: in addition to the above symptoms, the face is flushed, the lips are cherry red, and the awareness obstacle is shallow to moderate coma, and recovery after rescue without obvious complications.

4. Severe poisoning: in addition to the coma, mainly there are all sorts of reflection significantly diminished or disappeared, incontinence, limb of appetite, oral or pale violet purple, sweating, increased body temperature, blood pressure to drop, miosis, ranging from large or expand; Shallow or moist breathing. Serious complications can occur, such as cerebral edema, shock, myocardial damage, pulmonary edema, respiratory failure, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, brain focal lesion, etc. The duration of coma, often indicating the severity of hypoxia, also determines the severity of prognosis and sequelae.

What about carbon monoxide poisoning

1. Open doors and Windows and turn off the gas switch. Patients should be removed from the toxic environment as soon as possible, and patients should be moved in a well-ventilated and fresh place to keep warm.

2. Patients should take a quiet rest to avoid aggravating the heart, lung burden and oxygen consumption after activity. Loosen the buckle and belt, keep the airway clear and remove the nose and nose.

3. In the case of a coma gas victim, the head is tilted to one side to prevent the vomit from inhaling the lungs, leading to suffocation or aspiration pneumonia.

4. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation should be performed immediately if breathing is weak. If the heart stops beating, do chest compressions immediately.

How to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning

1. Water heater selection

Do not use to eliminate water heater, such as the direct discharge water heater and flue water heater, these two kinds of water heater is the country expressly set up to ban production and sale; Do not use the overage service water heater; Installation water heater is best to ask professional personage installation, do not install by oneself, demolish, refit to burn tool. Bathroom doors and Windows are not closed when the winter showers are cool. Don´t take long showers.

2. Alarm installation

Install carbon monoxide alarms where you can produce carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide alarm is specially used to test device of the carbon monoxide concentration in the air, can timely alarm when excess carbon monoxide concentration, some can also forced open the window or exhaust fan, make people far away from the violation of carbon monoxide.

3. Coal stove heating

Never use buckets, POTS or smokestacks to keep warm indoors. Don´t lay the stove directly in the bedroom. Indoor fire heating should be ventilated regularly. When using a coal stove, check the cover of the stove before going to bed, and whether the coal in the furnace is completely burnt, and must not be sealed for heating.

4. He saved

Once found poisoned, rescuers used a wet towel to cover your nose and mouth to enter indoor, immediately open the window ventilated, quickly to transfer the patient to the ventilation and heat preservation recumbent, collar and belt and its breathe easier. Call an ambulance at the same time, ready to be taken to a hospital with a high pressure oxygen tank. If the patient is in a coma, the head should be tilted to one side to prevent suffocation.