Accidental cooking gas intoxication

ABSTRACT The primary component of natural gas is methane (CH4). It also contains ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), butane (C4H10), and other sulfur containing gases, in varying concentrations. Suicide by domestic gas was forming more than 40 percent of the annual number of suicides in England and Wales in 1963. Jarvis et al. reported that women using gas stoves had double the respiratory problems of women cooking on electric stoves. I am reporting three cases of accidental cooking gas intoxication, with history of unconsciousness, with or without convulsion. The two males among our patients presented were ended up with neurological deficits like abnormal movements, disorientation and irritability. The 3rd patient recovered more or less completely but still she was complaining from mild weakness in the lower limbs. Natural gas carries an important cause of respiratory and neurological illnesses if the patients are exposed to it for enough time. : . .. 40 1963. . : . () . .