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

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Martin

Thanks for that clarification. Fortunately lowering of CO from a fire is relatively easy and from an IAQ point of view is easy to remove by using a chimney or ventilation.

You used smoking as a comparison which is useful. Smoke from a cigarette has a massive CO level because it is smouldering, not burning. I was wondering if there is a 'narcotic' effect of hypoxia what attracts people to the habit.

Regards
Crispin

Hi,
I must correct myself about anemia !
We should not call the effect of CO anaemia, because that is per definition lack of erythrocyths, that means no erys at all, or at least a too small number of them.

but CO makes a competitive blocking of oxygen, while all the red blood-bodies are still in circulation.
The effect of severe anemia/erythropenia as well as the effect of CO is called _hypoxia_, the shortage of oxygen in the tissue.

-  Smokers built an extra portion of erys to compensate the number of erys which are for the time blocked by CO until CO is no more in the inspiration-air, and so disappears very very slowly.
 Yes, Crispin, CO is itself part of metabolism even it is in normal air, but that is all a lower range.
- By the way: Sharply seen means anaemia normally only an erythropenia, not a  totally absence of erythrocyts, -as in the sense of the word.-


After the hemoglobin is released from CO,  the erythrocyt transports again O2

Regards
Martin

>
>
> Hi,
> The website I had cited  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenstoffmonoxid
> is worth to notice. There is information that
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> CO is far more different than only making anemia as shortage of erythrocytes.
> e.g.:
> "Sowohl Stickstoff- als auch Kohlenstoffmonoxid können als extrem niedermolekulare, wasserlösliche Gase sehr schnell und relativ unbehindert Biomembranen durchdringen und dienen deshalb alsNeurotransmitter bei der Übertragung von Informationen aus dem primären oder sensorischen in das sekundäre oder Langzeitgedächtnis durch das limbische System.[50][51]"
>
> I'll try to translate:
> Nitrogen as well as carbonmonoxide can, as low-molecular, water-soluble gasses transit relatively light biomembranes and use to be therefore as neurotransmitters by the sending of information out of the primary or sensory into the secondary or longtimebrain via the limbic system.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
>

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