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State the remedies for carbon monoxide poisoning.


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Understanding the concept:

Carbon monoxide is a harmful gas, even minor cases of CO poisoning can cause serious complications.

These may include:

  • brain damage
  • heart damage
  • organ damage
  • death

There are various ways to remedy yourselves from carbon monoxide poisoning:

  • To inhale pure oxygen is the best way to treat CO poisoning.
  • This treatment helps to eliminate CO from the bloodstream by increasing oxygen levels in the blood.
  • Your doctor will instruct you to breathe while wearing an oxygen mask over your nose and mouth.
  • The victim should be brought out into the open right away.
  • Artificial respiration with a carbogen should be administered to the victim.
  • Carbogen is a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen used to stimulate breathing in respiratory problems during carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • Severe carbon monoxide poisoning may require the person in a full-body, high-pressure chamber that pushes oxygen into the body. That therapy is called hyperbaric therapy.


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