A Rare Cause of Carbon Monoxide Intoxication: Hookah

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 3, 39 - 42, 27.12.2018

Gürkan Altuntaş Ali Aygün , Murat Mümin Yazıcı Melih İmamoğlu , Selim Yurtsever Özlem Bilir

https://doi.org/10.19127/mbsjohs.478663

Abstract

Carbon monoxide is a gas formed by partial combustion of carbon containing
fuels and leads to intoxication with various non-specific clinical findings.
Although hookah is a common way of tobacco consumption among people living in
the Middle East, Asia and Africa, it has become popular in European countries
and United States of America (USA). In our country, hookah smoking is
especially common among young people and more common in cafes. In our case
report, two cases with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning findings after smoking
hookah. In both cases, non-specific clinical findings were observed after
hookah smoking and blood carboxyhemoglobin fraction (FCOHb) levels were higher
than normal values in laboratory parameters.

Keywords

Carbon monoxide, Hookah, Intoxication

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