Pyroka
26-02-2008, 01:35 PM
Hey,
I don't usually post in here, since I'm all fine and dandy however today I found something in the paper which interested me. On the train today, coming home from College I picked up a paper called Metro. I think it's a London news paper but it was coming home from Waterloo so yeah. SWT ftw.
Basically, the article is all about how recently there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon monoxide poisoning. Alarming at most, but how can this happen? Well, according to the article it may be due to your house, or boiler to be more specific! Low levels of intake of the potentially fatal gas can cause symptons which could be related to cold/flu. 'Headaches, nausea, tiredness and other flu-like complaints' are some of the symptons which you could be getting repeatedly.
Lloyds Pharmacy do a breath test and it detects if you've been breathing anything dangerous, or out of the ordinary. The tests proven very interesting, with huge levels being detected from some people. Some people researched it more, and they say that 7.6 million homes could be at risk of a faulty fatal boiler.
Worrying don't you think? >_> Just thought some people might be having that sort of problem... If so, get yourself down to Lloyds & get a breath test. They're probably free.
Article: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=104114&in_page_id=34
I don't usually post in here, since I'm all fine and dandy however today I found something in the paper which interested me. On the train today, coming home from College I picked up a paper called Metro. I think it's a London news paper but it was coming home from Waterloo so yeah. SWT ftw.
Basically, the article is all about how recently there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon monoxide poisoning. Alarming at most, but how can this happen? Well, according to the article it may be due to your house, or boiler to be more specific! Low levels of intake of the potentially fatal gas can cause symptons which could be related to cold/flu. 'Headaches, nausea, tiredness and other flu-like complaints' are some of the symptons which you could be getting repeatedly.
Lloyds Pharmacy do a breath test and it detects if you've been breathing anything dangerous, or out of the ordinary. The tests proven very interesting, with huge levels being detected from some people. Some people researched it more, and they say that 7.6 million homes could be at risk of a faulty fatal boiler.
Worrying don't you think? >_> Just thought some people might be having that sort of problem... If so, get yourself down to Lloyds & get a breath test. They're probably free.
Article: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=104114&in_page_id=34