[Stoves] blood analysis as heath impact certification for "clean" stoves

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

[Default] On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:26:46 +0200 (CEST),JF Rozis
<rozisjf at club-internet.fr> wrote:

>Is CO content in the haemoglobin a good tracer for health impact?

Interesting question: the major health impact from unvented stoves is
perceived to be the long term effects of the smaller particulates, PM
10 and PM2.5, these tend to be products of poor secondary combustion
allowing carbon rings to form rather than burn out to CO2 and they
combine to form Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons  (things like benzo-a
pyrene one of the pernicious carcinogens associated with tobacco
smoking and lung cancer). 

These PACs in the particulates are particularly dangerous to the young
and growing.

So is there a direct relationship between PACs and CO concentration.

Is there a long term effect from exposure to low levels of CO, we see
people that stop smoking seem to have no long terms effects from CO
exposure.

AJH