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 · 54m 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 · 1h ago
God forbid we have alternatives that work in minutes
EvanAnderson · 1h ago
Methylene blue has a fun/shocking side-effect.
zoklet-enjoyer · 31m ago
Turns your pee blue
yard2010 · 35m ago
It turns you into a meth head.
schmidtleonard · 1h ago
Is that the one that turns your organs blue?
canadiantim · 1h ago
it turns you red?
bananapub · 32m 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 · 2h 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