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A silent killer may be loose in your house.
The deadly criminal is carbon monoxide—CO—a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas produced every time a carbon-containing material burns.
A leaflet from, the American Medical Association reports that CO combines with blood 200 times ruorc easily than oxygen. If you breathe air containing a normal amount of oxygen and a moderate amount of carbon monoxide, your blood will be starved for oxygen. When blood cannot supply oxygen to your brain, permanent brain damage or death may result.
Dangerous quantities of CO usually accumulate when a cool, slow fire burns in limited air. Since you can’t see, smell, or taste it, the gas is hard to detect except by your symptoms — drowsiness, headache, tightness across the forehead, confusion, nausea, and muscular weakness. CO poisoning may confuse you so that you'Ca'nnot reach fresh air tcr'felicve the symptoms and prevent serious injury.
To prevent a carbon monoxide attack in your home—
• Have all heating systems
checked annually for operating
efficiency. Make sure that
vents, pipes, flues and chimneys
are tight.
• Make certain that your heat
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