A detector, however, should never lull a person into being careless with fuel burning devices or ignoring symptoms of poisoning. Carbon monoxide poisoning can kill whole families at one time. Jose Maqueda and Ipolito Barrera were listening to a radio in Maqueda's garage when carbon monoxide from the engine killed them. The air-conditioning unit spread gas from the garage throughout the house. Maqueda's wife, son, daughter, nephews and another relative were all killed.
Carbon monoxide can also cause seizueres, unconsciousness and coma.
A person who has symptoms may get better when out of an affected house after two to four hours. When the person goes back he again becomes worse. Many people are needlessly killed from carbon monoxide poisoning. Simple precautions, however, would prevent the needless deaths. Inc. PageWise makes no representations about the content published on this site.