A CRUSADING mum fears more people will die if warnings about the ‘silent killer’ carbon monoxide are not heeded.

Runcorn mum-of-four Lynn Griffiths has been campaigning since she and her family were poisoned, and met Runcorn tenants last Wednesday as part of an awareness week.

Widow Lynn, aged 56, claims they were exposed to the gas for up to 10 years at their former home until 1999, due to a blocked flue from the fire in their living room.

Lynn, of Sheridan Way, Sandymoor, who launched the charity CO Awareness in 2005, said: “If you die you make the headlines, but if you survive you have to struggle.

“I know what it is like to be a victim of carbon monoxide.

“I get tired and fatigued. It knocks your balance and affects your brain.

“I’ve lived the nightmare.

“I want to make people realise it is not just caused by gas boilers and fires, it can happen with wood, oil and coal, anywhere, in a tent, caravan or a boat.

“People have died from barbecues. It is quite frightening.”

Lynn, who struggles with breathlessness, nausea, headaches and other medical problems, believes more needs to be done to educate health professionals to diagnose CO poisoning and treat survivors.

She said: “I know what it is like to get misdiagnosed by a doctor as suffering from the flu or a virus.

“How many people are unaware they too could be suffering the effects of chronic carbon monoxide poisoning just like my family without even knowing it?”

She has won support from medics, emergency services and landlords.

She is now striving to press government ministers to take urgent action.

Lynn added: “My children and I were chronically poisoned for over a decade.

“I don’t want anyone else to go through what we’ve suffered.”

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