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Carbon monoxide statistics are wrong!Carbon monoxide statistics are wrong. Why? Because symptoms from carbon monoxide poisoning mimic a huge range of common health issues. This misleads both survivors and health care professionals alike. This almost always leads to a wrong diagnosis. Even though a person may have been exposed to carbon monoxide and experience symptoms typical of poisoning, the overwhelming majority of mild to mid level exposure cases do not end up in doctors offices or emergency rooms. Therefore, they are never identified, diagnosed or accounted for in any way in carbon monoxide statistics. A victim may be quite aware that they were experiencing range of symptoms but completely unaware that the symptoms were due to carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning. A survivor can go on to experience a range of ongoing health issues and never know the real underlying cause. As symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning can be so varied and imitate so many other common health issues the link to carbon monoxide exposure is very frequently missed in emergency rooms - and even more commonly missed in clinics and doctors offices. Even when medical attention is sought, the vast majority of cases are misdiagnosed so the connection to carbon monoxide is never identified, recorded or tracked in any way. Victims never learn they are victims of carbon monoxide poisoning even though they may continue to seek treatment for directly related health issues and experience short term effects, long term effects, neurological problems, endocrine problems, and other health issues - from cellular damage, all without ever knowing the real cause. Two or more people arriving at the same hospital from the same location with similar symptoms are more likely to be accurately diagnosed. However, a health professional is [much] more likely to think of a microbial cause, drug interaction, or drug overdose than CO poisoning. Accurate carbon monoxide statistics rely on both accurate reporting and accurate diagnosis. There is no way to know how many cases are misdiagnosed, there are only guesstimates. Some experts say that for every case accurately diagnosed, there are at least ten that are misdiagnosed. Others say the number may be [much] higher. The world is packed with an almost endless number of sources of carbon monoxide. This means there are potentially a significant number of people being poisoned by without knowing the cause of their health issues. These poisonings are never tracked or even estimated in carbon monoxide statistics. Something that further distorts carbon monoxide statistics is that even when survivors are properly diagnosed there is no system in place to report and track their ongoing health issues and related statistics (in any country that we are aware of). Just how large and how deep does the carbon monoxide poisoning "iceberg" go? Nobody knows because carbon monoxide statistics are wrong wrong wrong! Medical doctors, biochemists, and toxicologists readily recognize the extreme danger carbon monoxide presents while at unsafe levels in the air and unsafe levels in the body/bloodstream but as a rule, have a limited understanding of the true impact, subtleties, and long term effects poisoning. Survivors that "connect the dots" and realize their ongoing effects are tied to their poisoning are the ones that "get it."
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Perhaps the American Medical Association should employ a study? Just a thought!!!
Most public awareness is limited to wood stoves or third world countries, but as you note, the problem is epidemic in modern nations. http://harpub.co.cc