Carbon monoxide poisoning treatment
Why doctors and health practitioners don't know enough
Survivors commonly find that after carbon monoxide poisoning their health care provider doesn't seem to
know nearly enough.
Health professionals are very aware of the extreme
dangers of unsafe levels of carbon monoxide while in the
body and bloodstream.
If an accurate diagnosis is made they are effective at lowering dangerous levels in the body/bloodstream and
stabilizing critical situations. They are very aware that poisoning can cause serious injury resulting in
brain damage and a range of health issues.
However, as a group they lack knowledge and understanding around the subtleties, additional symptoms and short term effects and long term health impact. This commonly translates into
inadequate, ineffective, or non-existent short, mid and long term treatment options.
Survivors commonly say that their doctor "Just didn't seem to know much" or "Couldn't offer any explanation
about my symptoms" or "Wasn't much help at all" or "Had no clue what I was going through".
There are several reasons for this:
There are comparatively few cases of carbon monoxide poisoning
Over the course of a career a doctor may see hundreds, if not thousands of cases of flu, colds, broken bones,
cuts, food poisonings, arthritis, heart conditions, cancer, and all kinds of common health issues.
However, they may only see a tiny handful of carbon monoxide poisoning cases. Some will never see a single case.
Most will never diagnose a case. This is true for almost all health professionals except emergency room physicians
(who are typically not involved in long term treatment/care).
Most medical professionals are busy and overworked in their area of specialty. This leaves little time to learn
about rare or unusual health conditions.
Most health professionals have little demand or reason to become more than superficially knowledgeable on the
subject of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is under diagnosed, under recognized, and the statistics are wrong
Symptoms of carbon monoxide
poisoning mimic many common health issues. The link to carbon monoxide exposure as the underlying source
of symptoms or health issues is almost always missed by health care professionals.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is very commonly
misdiagnosed which hides the actual number of number of poisonings. Misdiagnosis severly distorts statistics.
As the real number of poisonings are under-diagnosed and under-recognized the subject does not get the
level of attention and awareness it deserves.
There is little to no research on the subject of carbon monoxide poisoning
Medicine and pharmaceuticals are big business. Main stream medicine requires formal research, studies, and a
level of proof before it takes a position or makes any kind of medical claim. The fact is, only health conditions
with business potential are funded, researched, studied, and then treatments (mostly pharmaceuticals) are
developed.
The treatment of common health conditions is big business. The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning is not big
business. It is not even a tiny dot on the medical radar screen. This means virtually no funding or
research with little likelihood of things changing.
There are no large scale comprehensive long term studies on the ongoing effects and real life
impact of carbon monoxide poisoning. If you are aware of such a study please contact us
The medical establishment has held the position that if a survivor experiences after effects then the prospect
of recovery is not good
The belief that not much can be done results in a large percentage of survivors becoming [incredibly] frustrated
with their care.
Out of desperation survivors and their families commonly seek alternate kinds of treatment and therapies.
Survivors then bump into a different version of the same problem, encountering alternate health care
practitioners that know little about the subject of carbon monoxide poisoning and how to manage and treat the
ongoing effects.
The good news
There are a substantial number of things that can be done to help manage the "side effects" of poisoning and
support the body in recovery. Unfortunately, few survivors are ever made aware of this.
More information is available on the carbon monoxide videos. They are
free to survivors and their families.
The online recovery program is
available for carbon monoxide poisoning survivors and family members that wish to know more.
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1.they can make more money by sending you to every kind of specialist for tests which prove nothing but keep you on the hook because they pretend to do something for you.
2.in Canada almost all the occupational illness specialists work for the manufacturing companies or the government and they don't want to solve your problem because it would cost them too much in compensation if they related the endless chronic illness that is being caused in workplace settings to their improper safety air management.
3.the powers that be like to keep the public in the dark about how toxic our environment really is--last visit to the laudramat I became ill with my symptoms from someone's laundry detergent! So-oo many products are being produced without testing for effects of toxic chemicals!
I could go on and on because this topic is very far-reaching in the day to day existance of our entire society.
He insisted that I was just depressed and I should take an anti depressant because it "couldn't do any harm." I took it and the medication successfully stopped me from sleeping for months before I made the decision to stop taking it.
I went to him for several years with all the symptoms from chronic co poisoning and he didnt have a clue.
Thanks for nothing doc.