High Co2 levels! Help!

[firecracker85]

Hi, I'm 7 months pregnant. My last 2 co2 readings have been high.
My partner and I don't smoke. Our boiler is tested yearly and we have a Co2 alarm.

Last month, tested on 2 different machines, both high at 7ppm. Partner and midwife tested themselves and they were high too so midwife put it down to 2 faulty machines.

Today, I have tested at 6ppm and 7ppm on 2 different machines. Partner and midwife not tested this time.

Midwife is referring me to a specialist to contact me.

I'm worried that there is some sort of Co2 leak somewhere but my partner is very sceptical about the test because of what happened last month.

Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do/ check in the meantime?

Thanks!

Firstly, it is CO not CO2, we all breathe out CO2 which is carbon dioxide. A lot of midwives go around saying CO2, drives me nuts!

It can be caused by many things, invisible as you have identified a faulty boiler so far you have an alarm at home.

It could be a fault in your car or heavy air pollution etc. Or it could be the machine needing to be calibrated although if both occasions were different machines that is less likely.

Public transport can make a difference. I did some training once and had taken the metro in Newcastle to get there (underground) and blew really high, it was nuts. Non smoker, alarm at home for the solid fuel stove etc.

Definitely worth looking in to though.

Our boiler is tested yearly and we have a Co2 alarm.

Boilers leak carbon monoxide which is CO and that is what your alarm is for. Check your alarm is still in date and doesn't need to be replaced.

Carbon dioxide is CO2 which is what you breath out.

I have tested at 6ppm and 7ppm on 2 different machines.

How do you travel around? Do you live in an area with high traffic? Do you live in an area with a high air pollution?

Also random but do u live on a busy main rd at all?? Mine was zero first pregnancy throughout quite rural area

we moved for second baby and was aleays around 3/4 and we moved to busy main rd
And buses were 10/15mins all day rveryday
i think its air pollution too?
i travel on public transport too
it was a two this time round

You're not by any chance lactose intolerant? Can skew results.

Thank you for your reply! Sorry if I got confused by the terminology.
Spoke to the specialists who called me, turns out it is most likely caused by me burning candles!

Any chance you suffer from any of the conditions below?

Hereditary Hemolytic Anemias

• Hereditary spherocytosis (HS)
• G6PD deficiency
• Pyruvate kinase deficiency
• Other RBC membrane disorders (elliptocytosis, stomatocytosis)

or

Immune-Mediated Hemolysis

• Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA)
• Alloimmune hemolysis (e.g., hemolytic disease of the newborn from Rh incompatibility)
• Drug-induced immune hemolysis

All of these cause increased turnover of RBCs → more heme breakdown → more CO production.