Submitted by lizziebordensbae t3_zwmlvj in tifu
Talvert182 t1_j1x4v03 wrote
Reply to comment by Topinambourg in TIFU and almost killed my whole family by lizziebordensbae
You don’t need CO to die from asphyxiation. You just need enough of a gas to displace the oxygen. It’s the same reason people die from inhaling nitrous oxide. Carbon Monoxide is just especially good at it and used to be a lot more common.
Topinambourg t1_j1yh3v8 wrote
CO doesn't kill because of asphyxiation. It fixates on the blood cells and prevents them to work correctly. That's why it's called intoxication/poisoning.
OP cottage isn't a hermetic minuscule vault, the gas outflow would never asphyxiate anyone, because there is an enormous oxygen volume and because the place isn't perfectly hermetic from the outside air. It's almost like saying the CO2 created by their breathing could have killed them. And once again the smell would wake anyone up way before the level of oxygen is low enough to be damaging.
Reddit is just tripping
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