Methane Gas Causes Low Oxygen Level Symptoms of Headache, Weakness and Lightheaded

Do you feel tired, dizzy or have frequent headaches? Have you had any inexplicable extreme heart palpitation events and all your tests keep coming back with healthy heart? Have you had that feeling of malaise, a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort?

Perhaps experiencing a sense of inattentiveness, poor judgment, memory loss or a decrease in motor coordination without cause? Do you have these foggy symptoms while in one environment and then feel much better when you are somewhere else?

Methane. Take a look around the environment that seems to making you ill and consider whether something in it might be producing methane gas. For example:

  • sewage drainage issues
  • potting soil in a plastic bag
  • rotting food in your kitchen
  • compost pile outside a window
  • live close to a waste treatment plant

Methane gas is the by product of decomposing waste (anything that was previously alive) in the absence of oxygen. The amount of methane created depends on the quantity and moisture content of the waste.

Methane is an odorless, colorless flammable gas. It is used primarily as fuel to make heat, light and manufacturing organic chemicals. It can be formed by the decay of natural materials and is common in landfills, marshes, septic systems and sewers.

Methane is not toxic when inhaled. But it can reduce the amount of oxygen in a room, which in turn may reduce the amount of oxygen in your blood stream.  And that might be the root cause for your symptoms, like:

You know that feeling when you enter a closed in room with a lot of people in it. Stuffy might best describe this room’s condition. And when you exit the room you feel much better. That’s kinda what methane does to a room, causes low oxygen level. Only nobody else is in it.

Potting soil, or manufactured dirt, is mentioned because it may not be considered a culprit of methane gas production in home environments. However, storing it inside, in a bag, in the presence of humidity and you can have one potent methane gas producer.

Potting soil (dirt) contains natural waste products that are in the process of breaking down all the time. The plastic bag, with those small aeration holes, creates an ideal anaerobic (without oxygen) condition with methane potentially seeping out into a closed in environment, your winterized house. Death by asphyxiation is possible.

If you happen to be storing potting soil inside ~ you may want to consider taking it outside.

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