Playing side stoves and BBQ have always been popular activities in autumn and winter, but this winter has been replaced by “cooking tea around the stove”. It has become a popular trend in mainland China to cook tea and bake snacks in front of small charcoal stoves with close friends, relatives and friends, but there is no Thinking of some people “burning charcoal” in a closed indoor space because they are afraid of freezing, they almost died. In Guangzhou, Zhejiang and other places, cases of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by cooking tea or barbecues in closed rooms have recently occurred. The media and fire departments have issued articles reminding them to be alert to the “invisible killer” carbon monoxide.
Mainland media reported that a couple from Ningbo, Zhejiang province used a cast-iron charcoal stove to cook tea and barbecue at home last Thursday night. At about 10 a.m. the next morning, a friend called the couple and found that the phone could not be connected. He rushed to their home, found them lying on the ground, and called the police immediately. Ambulance personnel arrived at the scene and found two people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. Among them, the woman had weakness in her limbs, twitching of both upper limbs and incontinence, and the man had mild symptoms.
Couple call police before comatose after grilling with windows closed
There is also a young couple in Clifford New Village, Panyu, Guangzhou. Last Thursday midnight, they burned skewers on a charcoal stove at home, and closed all the doors and windows because of the cold weather. They soon developed symptoms such as tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, general weakness, dizziness, and confusion. Among them, the woman quickly fell to the ground and fell into a coma, while the man struggled to pick up his mobile phone to call the police just before the coma, and informed the gate password, saving a lot of time for rescue. When the ambulance personnel entered the house, the consciousness of the two people was already very weak. After first aid, they gradually regained consciousness and were sent to the hospital for further treatment.
Earlier, a woman in Weifang, Shandong Province was brewing tea by the stove with the doors and windows tightly closed. After sighing for three hours, she became dizzy and vomited violently. She went to the hospital by herself and was confirmed to have carbon monoxide poisoning. In Baoshan District, Shanghai, in the middle of last month, three people burned sweet potatoes and drank alcohol in a closed attic around a charcoal stove. After about 6 hours, they gradually became hypoxic and became confused. One of them hurriedly called the police for help.
Luo Linna, an attending physician in the emergency department of West China Fourth Hospital of Sichuan University, revealed that the peak period of carbon monoxide poisoning is from December to March of the next year, and the situation was more critical on the 4th of last month. Six patients with carbon monoxide poisoning were admitted in a single day. Between the ages of 1 and 72, a pair of 72-year-old and 35-year-old mother and son from Aba Prefecture took a nap by the charcoal stove that day. Unexpectedly, the elder brother “did bad things with good intentions” and closed the doors and windows of the house before going out to do errands. The mother and younger brother were already unconscious, with vomit all over their mouths and around their bodies. When they were sent to the hospital, they also developed symptoms such as incontinence and arrhythmia. After some rescue efforts, they were out of danger.
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