CO Fact

Mild Exposure to CO

At lower levels of constant exposure, CO causes mild effects that are often mistaken for the flu. These symptoms include headaches, dizziness, disorientation, nausea and fatigue.


Other Facts

Carbon Monoxide Awareness

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can happen within a matter of minutes and is responsible for more deaths than any other poison. This odorless, colorless poison can hurt you slowly in low levels, cause permanent neurological dysfunctions in moderate levels, or take lives in higher levels.

People often associate carbon monoxide with running cars and closed garages, but this is not the case. Poisoning may occur from running generators within your home to faulty exhaust systems in cars. The latter is what took our beloved Janelle’s life.

While sitting in her friend Tony’s car just talking, as most people do on a regular basis and the mix of little breeze that night with an exhaust leak caused their deaths.

Prevention is as easy as installing a detector in areas where fuel-producing appliances or vehicles are.

Awareness is highly important. Knowing your surroundings and symptoms associated with carbon monoxide poisoning can help protect your health. These include, but all not limited to, nausea, headaches, dizziness, and shortness of breathe.

 

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CO Alarms during Hurricane Season

Studies show that most storm-related CO Poisonings occur within a few days of a hurricane’s landfall, and more than 90 percent are caused by portable generators.

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Every year, Over 2,000 Americans succomb to the deadly effects of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning!

At Janelle’s Wishing Well Foundation, carbon monoxide awareness and prevention is a deeply personal and critical issue.  Knowledge and awareness are the strongest weapons against ignorance, and Janelle's Wishing Well foundation is determined to educate against this silent killer.



Community Outreach

Community Outreach

As part of our community out-reach efforts, Janelle's Wishing Well participates in news-radio shows and partners with community leaders and local school boards in promoting the Foundation's message during school health fairs, driver's education programs, and other community wellness outreach initiatives targeting the local teen population and sharing the facts on the dangers of carbon monoxide.

FIU students have dedicated numerous volunteer hours to local high schools educating junior high and high-school students on the dangers of carbon monoxide and the need for regular car exhaust maintenance checks.

“Every year when we give out [carbon monoxide] detector kits for cars to students on campus, I also make sure to give some to my professors in order for them to know and be able to spread the word as well…I will do all that I can to continue to help in these efforts;” ~ Brandy Raulerson, FIU.



Useful Links

Helpful Links

 

Additional Resources through the American Lung Association and the Journal of the American Journal Association