Thai Health Min warns tourists against using charcoal stove indoors to keep them warm

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Public Health warns tourists against using charcoal stove indoors to keep them warm

BANGKOK, 22 December 2014 (NNT)-The Ministry of Public Health has warned winter tourists against drinking alcohol to keep warm and using a charcoal stove in a tent or indoors as its fumes could be harmful.

Ministry of Public Health Dr. Narong Sahamethapat has instructed local health offices to advise people on how to keep themselves warm during winter, particularly children and the elderly who are prone to winter sickness.

Tourists must not use the charcoal stove in the tent as fumes, which consist of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, could kill them. People who inhale the gas would soon become unconscious and die as no oxygen would be supplied to the brain.

He also cautioned that drinking alcohol would cause the body to lose body heat and water through the skin. The body temperature will gradually drop and should a person fall asleep from drinking too much, he could die from hypothermia.


-- NNT 2014-12-22

[gerry123]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

[crazygreg44]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

Me think the warning is corrrect. It is aimed at 'winter tourists', so they actually mean THAI tourists who are coming in doves to the north to experience the cold snap. They are warning their own people.

Farang are not 'winter tourists' in Thailand . . . never seen any of them, carrying skiing equipment or spiked shoes to Chiang Mai and ask the guesthouse owners where one can do the alpine trekking tours . .

[rak sa_ngop]

These type of incidents are quite common in the Vietnamese hill tribe areas. People staying in guesthouses with a compressed charcoal brick burner kindly provided by the hotel owner to keep warm. People die from these things.

[Prbkk]

They can be very dangerous: commonly used for suicide in Japan.

[gerry123]

my point exactly so not info for visiting tourists all the more reason to post in Thai

thanks for info but i don't think i will go to the bother of contacting the alpine trekking tours .

[meatboy]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

what about the joke section

tourists bring their own heaters,minister they are called wooly jumpers[no not sheep].

[SoFarAndNear]

charcoal stove inside a tent? Seriously?! But okay after hearing from the chinese guy who opened the emergency door of an airplane to get fresh air nothing surprises me anymore.

[JeremyBowskill]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

Me think the warning is corrrect. It is aimed at 'winter tourists', so they actually mean THAI tourists who are coming in doves to the north to experience the cold snap. They are warning their own people.

Farang are not 'winter tourists' in Thailand . . . never seen any of them, carrying skiing equipment or spiked shoes to Chiang Mai and ask the guesthouse owners where one can do the alpine trekking tours . .

You have seen skiing in Chiang Mai??? 11 years in CM and somehow I must have missed it...........

[chainarong]

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i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

Me think the warning is corrrect. It is aimed at 'winter tourists', so they actually mean THAI tourists who are coming in doves to the north to experience the cold snap. They are warning their own people.

Farang are not 'winter tourists' in Thailand . . . never seen any of them, carrying skiing equipment or spiked shoes to Chiang Mai and ask the guesthouse owners where one can do the alpine trekking tours . .

You have seen skiing in Chiang Mai??? 11 years in CM and somehow I must have missed it...........

After a few slabs Xmas day you can do anything

[ignis]

Maybe something New coming to Thailand ?

tent Holidays for Tourists

[thesetat2013]

Maybe something New coming to Thailand ?

tent Holidays for Tourists

With electric heaters and wrist bands to identify your frozen body when your dead

[WhizBang]

Tourists? Surely he means locals. We get this same warning every year.

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

and don't run with scissors!!!

[Dogbarker]

Camping holidays with tents and use by Homestay places is quite popular in Thailand for backpackers and Local tourists the same.

Keeping warm can be difficult , Global Chiang Mai are selling oil filled radiators which are worth buying for inside your HOUSE.

Burning charcoal is an issue , however all you need to do is follow your nose in Northern Thailand to find by smell a field of rice stubble , or piles of leaves or even that wonderful pile of plastic and tyres with a wonderful chirpy od man and a fire at he sorce ,, ahem keeping warm. Clearly he HAS seen the local banners and signs that he decided that is the best way of keeping warm and get the same effect as smoke inside your tent!

[timmyp]

They can be very dangerous: commonly used for suicide in Japan.

They use kerosene in Japan, but same idea

[Oceanbat]

They can be very dangerous: commonly used for suicide in Japan.

They use kerosene in Japan, but same idea

Charcoal. They light them up in a enclosed area. Super common way to suicide.

OB

[h90]

At 18 degree my mother consider if she may or may not turn off the aircondition.

[Don Aleman]

Then Thai Minister, buy or loan them electric or kerosene heaters !

[willyumiii]

This advisory should go out to the people of Thailand.

Since I have lived here I could not count the number of times I have seen Thai people cook indoors with charcoal bar- b- qs!

Not safe at all!

[timmyp]

They can be very dangerous: commonly used for suicide in Japan.

They use kerosene in Japan, but same idea

Charcoal. They light them up in a enclosed area. Super common way to suicide.

OB

You're totally right, i was just thinking about people heating their homes. Yeah, that charcoal stove was all the rage for the suicide fashionable.

[ripstanley]

Maybe something New coming to Thailand ?

tent Holidays for Tourists

Have a look at post #557 of this thread. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/607895-images-of-chiang-rai-2013/page-23

[steven100]

They can be very dangerous: commonly used for suicide in Japan.

They use kerosene in Japan, but same idea

Charcoal. They light them up in a enclosed area. Super common way to suicide.

OB

ssshhhhhhh ... please don't say it out loud ....

[FangFerang]

By every new and elder god, the news gets more ridiculous every day.

Happy Christmas

[RubbaJohnny]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

Me think the warning is corrrect. It is aimed at 'winter tourists', so they actually mean THAI tourists who are coming in doves to the north to experience the cold snap. They are warning their own people.

Farang are not 'winter tourists' in Thailand . . . never seen any of them, carrying skiing equipment or spiked shoes to Chiang Mai and ask the guesthouse owners where one can do the alpine trekking tours . .

For sufficient downhill inducement I can show you the Alpine Resort Some dyslexic snowboarders having attempted to buy cigars from the tobboganist

[RubbaJohnny]

i think this post would be better placed in the Thai speaking forum

Me think the warning is corrrect. It is aimed at 'winter tourists', so they actually mean THAI tourists who are coming in doves to the north to experience the cold snap. They are warning their own people.

Farang are not 'winter tourists' in Thailand . . . never seen any of them, carrying skiing equipment or spiked shoes to Chiang Mai and ask the guesthouse owners where one can do the alpine trekking tours . .

I can show you the Alpine Resort,where dyslexic Snowboarders try to get cigars from the tobboganists

Edited December 22, 2014 by RubbaJohnny