Methylene blue works great, is very cheap, and it's been around for over a century. I guess I shouldn't be a hater. This seems to improve the effectiveness of existing treatments. However, shame they don't mention methylene blue though in the article.
gus_massa 52 minutes ago [-]
IANAMD I made a quick search and the evidence of methylene blue as a carbon monoxide antidote looks controversial.
IIUC part of the effect is oxidizing/reducing the iron atom in the hemoglobin, and that changes how strong is the bound with the O2, CO, NO. But my chemistry is not enough to give a good guess of the results.
majkinetor 2 hours ago [-]
God forbid we have alternatives that work in minutes
EvanAnderson 2 hours ago [-]
Methylene blue has a fun/shocking side-effect.
yard2010 33 minutes ago [-]
It turns you into a meth head.
schmidtleonard 1 hours ago [-]
Is that the one that turns your organs blue?
zoklet-enjoyer 29 minutes ago [-]
Turns your pee blue
canadiantim 1 hours ago [-]
it turns you red?
bananapub 30 minutes ago [-]
not very on topic, but for those who missed one of the more surreal reddit threads in history:
It looks like he found a note in his room and see some strange thing in the window, and someone somehow says it's CO but it may be that the OP has unrelated hallucinations. Is this a symptom of CO poisoning? I think you only get sleepy, faint and die.
DonHopkins 2 hours ago [-]
>New Protein Therapy Shows Promise as Antidote for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
So Shatner was right all along: not only is Promise Margarine good for lowering your cholesterol level, but it can also treat carbon monoxide poisoning! And it tastes like butter, promise.
IIUC part of the effect is oxidizing/reducing the iron atom in the hemoglobin, and that changes how strong is the bound with the O2, CO, NO. But my chemistry is not enough to give a good guess of the results.
- [MA] Post-it notes left in apartment [0]
- and the update from OP a while later [1]
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_post...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/49zfvb/what_is_t...
So Shatner was right all along: not only is Promise Margarine good for lowering your cholesterol level, but it can also treat carbon monoxide poisoning! And it tastes like butter, promise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3wf717fKFE