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<p>"As a student nurse some years ago I lived in a house that I rented and shared with two other students. Despite all being in nursing we had never heard of carbon monoxide poisoning and it was a great shock to us to find out that the flu like symptoms we were all feeling were not in fact the flu but the beginning of carbon monoxide poisoning.</p>

<p>We found that during the evening sat in the living room we would feel headachy and lethargic and generally as if we were coming down with flu. During the day at work the symptoms got a little better but it was not until I had been away for the weekend that I realised that when I was out of the house I did not have a headache or flu symptoms but felt fine. When I returned home from the weekend within an hour or so I felt ill again. This was the point when we rang the gas board, who condemned the fire in the living room, explaining to us that as it had not been serviced for some time and was not burning the gas properly and as a result emitting carbon monoxide into our house.</p>

<p>Once the fire was repaired everything was fine. I am very cautious now though. I have a total of four CO alarms in my house, one in each room where I have an open fire and one in the boiler room. I would urge everybody who has an appliance that could emit carbon monoxide to get an alarm, better safe than sorry."</p>

<p><strong>A.D - Lincolnshire</strong></p>
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