Comment by OutOfHere
5 months ago
I advise always tightly wearing a "3M Particulate Respirator 8577, P95, NIOSH APPROVED, with Nuisance Level Organic Vapor Relief" mask while in flight. An N95 won't do it, and a P95 without the carbon layer won't do it either.
Even then, obviously it won't help with carbon monoxide. Only the oxygen mask could. I would stick to Boeing planes for now to lower the risk since it's greater in Airbus planes.
Note that a standard pulse oximeter could continue to falsely show good oxygenation when having carbon monoxide poisoning, so do not trust it then if it shows a high value.
Is there any simple way to detect the presence of this while aboard?
Yes. Search for CO meter on Amazon, many of which are portable enough to be placed in a backpack. I used to have one, but its battery leaked which damaged it. These days there are disposable lithium batteries and also models with a built-in rechargeable battery. There are also some that measure both CO and CO2, and it's good to measure both. An example is B0CRQZNPLV.
Note that some these meters can alarm, and sometimes alarms can be false, so if you don't want one that alarms, then find that one.
Note that there is nothing much that one can do while in flight except take pictures, videos, complain loudly, change seats from back to front, threaten to sue, maybe use the oxygen mask if lucky, and take down information of other passengers, all before fainting.
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