Recently, the cold wave has hit, the temperature has plummeted, and many friends have fallen in love with roasting fire, "cooking tea around the hearth", roasting sweet potatoes and ......But this seemingly pleasant leisure activity hides a dangerous "silent killer".
Yesterday, a colleague gave Xiaowen (pseudonym) a bag of sweet potatoes. As soon as he got home, he enthusiastically set up a charcoal stove and put sweet potatoes on it, ready to share it with his roommates. In order to protect himself from the cold, he closed all the doors and windows.
Roasting and roasting, Xiaowen gradually felt a little dizzy and fell asleep. In the evening, his roommate came home and found him fainting in his room and immediately called 120 for ambulance**. Emergency personnel arrived in time and sent him to Xiaoshan First People's Hospital. The emergency physician diagnosed Xiaowen with mild carbon monoxide poisoning. Fortunately, he was treated in time, and his vital signs have now returned to a stable level. "Carbon monoxide poisoning is poisoning caused by respiratory inhalation of the products of incomplete combustion of carbon-containing substances. The doctor reminded that in addition to "cooking tea around the stove", eating hot pot, barbecue, and heating with the stove indoors, cooking with gas with doors and windows closed, and blowing air conditioners with parking and windows closed, etc., seemingly ordinary behaviors may cause carbon monoxide poisoning. While pursuing a sense of atmosphere, residents and friends need to pay attention to avoid danger. Manifestations of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Mild poisoning often presents with dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, weakness, palpitations, and even transient syncope. Such patients are usually conscious, detached from the toxic environment, and symptoms disappear when fresh air is inhaled. Patients with moderate poisoning are often accompanied by symptoms such as excessive sweating, irritability, unsteady walking, paleness, confusion, drowsiness and fatigue, convulsions, collapse or coma, and will show the cherry red color characteristic of carbon monoxide poisoning. Patients with severe poisoning are in a deep coma, accompanied by increased muscle tone of the limbs and paroxysmal or obligatory spasms, etc., and most patients have cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, myocardial damage, respiratory depression, etc., and even death.