Miracle Cure?

Posted Apr 27, 2014 2:07 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Miracle Cure? by mathstuf
Parent article: A note from your editor

Carbon monoxide will bind with haemoglobin sufficiently strongly to prevent oxygen from binding, which sounds like what you're thinking of

Miracle Cure?

Posted Apr 27, 2014 4:59 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872) [Link] (1 responses)

That, or a confusion with methaemoglobin. That one *does* bind cyanide, but that's actually a mechanism of an antidote, not poisoning (amyl nitrite leads to conversion of hb to methb and methb binds cyanide stronger than cytochrome c).

Miracle Cure?

Posted May 2, 2014 18:40 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I can't remember exactly what it is, but when working with cyanide people usually have a simple antidote to hand. Iirc, it's two simple solutions which, when mixed, form some ferrOUS chemical. You can't keep it pre-mixed because it oxidises to ferrIC.

Swallow that, and it preferentially binds cyanide and takes it out of circulation for you.

Cheers,
Wol