Mom Issues Warning About Installing A Carbon Monoxide Detector After All 6 Of Her Children Ended Up Hospitalized Overnight
Rexburg, Idaho. On November 9th, a mom named Ashlyn Hansen shared some bone-chilling news through a public Facebook post; all six of her children were hospitalized overnight.
“I wasn’t going to share this,” She wrote, “but I have been letting it all run through my head over and over all night wondering what I could’ve done different or thinking I should’ve known this is what was happening from the beginning.”
It all started when Ashlyn’s sister-in-law Heather was babysitting the kids, and one of her sons said he had a headache and an upset stomach.
On the phone, Ashlyn told her son to take Ibuprofin and check in with her if he didn’t feel better. When he was no better by the next day, Heather decided to keep him home from school.
By this time, Heather had also started to show symptoms but chalked it up to dehydration or eating poorly.
No one felt any better by the next afternoon, and the rest of Ashlyn’s children had also begun showing the same symptoms, crying and acting strange.
At first, the family thought it might be food poisoning, but even their dog, Chewie, was barking and seemed alarmed.
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Unfortunately, matters soon worsened, as one of Ashlyn’s sons began throwing up, while another became unconscious.
Thankfully, a friend came by to check on them and immediately suspected that the cause of their mysterious illness was a gas leak.
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She brought the children and their sitter to the ER and called the fire department.
How had this happened? The firefighters’ investigation revealed that the home’s gas furnace had been leaking. Ashlyn reflected on her subsequent conversation about monoxide levels with the firefighters.
“When they respond to these calls, a normal range for them to see is 10-50. Our house was at 600,” One of her sons even had a monoxide level of 39 when this should never rise about 5.
“They said had it been any longer[…]we may not have the good outcome we did.” Ashlyn shared.
A few hours later, the fire chief returned to the house and determined that the monoxide level was at 0, but still recommended the family stay out of the house overnight.
Her advice for parents? “Hold your babies a little tighter today and get yourself a carbon monoxide detector!!”
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