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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Protecting Your Home
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Protecting Your Home
Overview
Here are some steps to help prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Purchase and install carbon monoxide detectors.
Install them on each level of your home and near sleeping areas. Follow the directions carefully for installing and using the detector. Be prepared so that you know what to do if the detector alarm sounds.
- Have your heating system inspected each year.
- Monitor appliances, chimneys, and vents.
Look for visible soot, rust, stains, blockage, or corrosion. Also have them inspected each year. When in use, make sure they vent properly to allow gas to escape from enclosed areas. Don't close the fireplace or wood/pellet stove damper before the fire is completely out.
- Don't use kerosene or propane heaters in an enclosed area.
- Don't use a gas kitchen oven to heat your home.
- Don't burn charcoal or use a grill indoors.
- Don't place power generators or pressure washers near windows or doors of your home.
- Don't use paint remover that has methylene chloride in it.
This is especially important when children are around. (Methylene chloride converts to carbon monoxide in the body.)
- Don't smoke cigarettes or have your child near someone who is smoking.
This is especially important in a poorly ventilated room.
Current as of: November 14, 2022
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Anne C. Poinier MD - Internal Medicine & Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine & Adam Husney MD - Family Medicine & R. Steven Tharratt MD, MPVM, FACP, FCCP - Pulmonology, Critical Care Medicine, Medical Toxicology
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