Carbon Monoxide can cause many problems in the long and short term. One of the biggest problems is when a victim is left to prove the connection of damage to the poisoning. This is because carbon monoxide does not play a significant part in any medical syllabus. This can be extremely frustrating and difficult for the victim if they have certain lifestyle habits/work related risks. The damage is also more likely to go undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or be put down to a hereditary or pre-programmed condition of the patient. This results in a lack of the correct help and financial costs to the health service through the mismanagement of patients. What knowledge there is within the medical profession tends to be about the emergency aspects of acute exposure - with very little known about the chronic effects of long term sub lethal exposures.

It is our view that Industry and Insurers have an interest in not highlighting the real dangers of carbon monoxide as ultimately they bear the costs of any legal action. Fossil Fuels remain a major driver of the world economy and those involved in their production wish them to be perceived as good clean products with no long term negative health effects.

WARNING: Please read this before proceeding to use these pages, especially if you are a victim of CO poisoning. Please consider the information on this site carefully. All the information has been carefully sourced, however it is important to point out that we cannot be held responsible for the data and information contained within. Advice given is not intended to replace professional medical, legal or engineering advice. If you require this assistance you should seek it seperately from a suitably qualified and approved practitioner.

Provided here are interactive human models and imagery explaining the pathways and some of the possible damage that Carbon Monoxide and other accompanying elements can do to life. It has been designed specifically for easy use and to be understood by the victim, layman, engineer, medical and legal professions.

All the information has links to proven peer reviewed medical papers, text books, contributors and other relevant sources. Whilst we do aim to keep our information as up to date as possible, it is impossible to source every relevant piece.

If you would like to submit an article, then please contact us.

Select one of the figures and roll the cursor over the body to discover the areas of potential damage and follow the hyperlinks to the relevant material.
Please note that not everyone gets all of the symptoms as everyone is different. It may also be that CO only exasperates a pre-existing condition such as asthma.

For further information and help, we strongly suggest that victims in particular approach other registered charities once they have a diagnoses in order that they can obtain more support and information. It is important to stress that they may have not the necessary links or connections that you are looking for to CO, but rather the indirect research headings of smoking and environmental links.

The web site is constantly being updated and added to. If you do not see the relevant link appear, it is due to either a lack of authority to reproduce the item given by the author/publisher or general lack of time and voluntary help to upload.

• Animated Movie showing the effects of CO