Help - gas leak poisioning

[Guest guest]

Hi, I'm cross-posting this on two lists.

My husband was exposed to a gas leak. He was on a business trip in

France -- the hotel was full so they put him in a small one-room

apartment where there was a bad gas leak.

He woke up every morning, dizzy and vomiting. He didn't figure out

that it was a gas leak until a few days into the trip -- so he was

exposed for 4 nights.

When he got home, I called 911 and he went to the emergency room. They

tested him for everything, and he checked out okay. They gave him a

bag of IV fluid and then sent him home.

He's been home 2 days now and he's still light-headed, totally

exhausted, he's having nightmares, depression, and he doesn't want to

do anything other than sleep. I'm worried about him -- he's not himself.

I have two questions:

He's worried that he has brain damage. He wants to know if that is

possible.

Secondly, what can we do to help him detox and recover?

Thank you -

Ann Marie

[Guest guest]

I don't know much about this, but I'd give him high doses of vitamin

C, and try to get him moving around as much as he feels like - to get

his blood/lymph circulating. I've read that methane isn't very

dangerous - most of the effects are temporary due to the suffocation

of it binding to the oxygen receptors so the blood can't carry

oxygen. Fresh air and oxygen are the recommended therapies I've

heard of.

If it was a different kind of gas, like fumigation for termites,

that's where the vitamin C would really come in, to help detox the

methyl bromide or whatever it could be. I read an essay that in

some buildings that are really old there are no traps in the drains

so sewer gas can come in as well as fumigants from other buildings in

the neighborhood.

>

> Hi, I'm cross-posting this on two lists.

>

> My husband was exposed to a gas leak. He was on a business trip in

> France -- the hotel was full so they put him in a small one-room

> apartment where there was a bad gas leak.

>

> He woke up every morning, dizzy and vomiting. He didn't figure out

> that it was a gas leak until a few days into the trip -- so he was

> exposed for 4 nights.

>

> When he got home, I called 911 and he went to the emergency room.

They

> tested him for everything, and he checked out okay. They gave him

a

> bag of IV fluid and then sent him home.

>

> He's been home 2 days now and he's still light-headed, totally

> exhausted, he's having nightmares, depression, and he doesn't want

to

> do anything other than sleep. I'm worried about him -- he's not

himself.

>

> I have two questions:

>

> He's worried that he has brain damage. He wants to know if that is

> possible.

>

> Secondly, what can we do to help him detox and recover?

>

> Thank you -

> Ann Marie

>