<p>They are used across north India in the winters. But LPG-fuelled gas geysers in poorly ventilated bathrooms can make you sick, doctors have warned.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The sickness associated with gas geysers comes from carbon monoxide poisoning that leads to heart complications and seizures. <br /><br />The gas may have triggered epilepsy-like symptoms in at least two patients, they suspect.<br /><br />Between 2008 and 2011, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here received 26 cases which can be linked to carbon monoxide poisoning due to the LPG-fulled geysers installed in bathrooms with poor or no ventilation.<br /><br />While seizure-like episodes were seen in 11 patients, carbon monoxide poisoning was seen in 13 others and near cardiac arrest in four. In two patients, poisoning became a precipitating factor for epilepsy, doctors reported in the May 24 issue of the “Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology.”<br /><br />“LPG geysers are used because of erratic electric supply. But they must not be used in a closed space. The manufacturers always warn on the use of these geysers in a closed space because of the accumulation of by-product gases. Otherwise, this is completely preventable,” Chandrasekhar Agarwal, head of neurology at Gangaram hospital and one of the co-authors of the paper, told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />Because of incomplete LPG combustion, the geysers emit two byproducts, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide, which accumulate in the bathroom.</p>
<p>They are used across north India in the winters. But LPG-fuelled gas geysers in poorly ventilated bathrooms can make you sick, doctors have warned.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The sickness associated with gas geysers comes from carbon monoxide poisoning that leads to heart complications and seizures. <br /><br />The gas may have triggered epilepsy-like symptoms in at least two patients, they suspect.<br /><br />Between 2008 and 2011, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here received 26 cases which can be linked to carbon monoxide poisoning due to the LPG-fulled geysers installed in bathrooms with poor or no ventilation.<br /><br />While seizure-like episodes were seen in 11 patients, carbon monoxide poisoning was seen in 13 others and near cardiac arrest in four. In two patients, poisoning became a precipitating factor for epilepsy, doctors reported in the May 24 issue of the “Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology.”<br /><br />“LPG geysers are used because of erratic electric supply. But they must not be used in a closed space. The manufacturers always warn on the use of these geysers in a closed space because of the accumulation of by-product gases. Otherwise, this is completely preventable,” Chandrasekhar Agarwal, head of neurology at Gangaram hospital and one of the co-authors of the paper, told Deccan Herald. <br /><br />Because of incomplete LPG combustion, the geysers emit two byproducts, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide, which accumulate in the bathroom.</p>
