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I Spent 3 Months Investigating Why 5,000 Kids Get Poisoned Every Year Despite Having CO Detectors. What I Found Should Be Illegal

Conclusion: The CO detector in your home wasn't built to protect your children. It was built to meet an outdated minimum code written for a grown adult's body

A child's bedroom seen from the hallway at night, the child asleep under the covers with a nightlight glowing in the corner, and a plain round white carbon monoxide alarm on the hallway wall beside the door, dark and silent.

Most parents are aware of the silent killer… they've seen the horror stories on the news hundreds of times.

And that awareness is a good thing…

It made the US the highest-adopting country for carbon monoxide detectors in the world, with almost every single home having a few installed.

The problem is, despite each of us making the effort to purchase detectors, the numbers show carbon monoxide poisoning is almost as likely to happen in a home that has a detector as in a home that doesn't have a detector at all.

In fact, 5,000 kids are getting poisoned by carbon monoxide every single year, and kids under the age of 9 have the highest fatality rate among all other ages.

So it begs the question:

If every single one of us has a detector, why are the chances of our children surviving a carbon monoxide poisoning so low? Isn't it as simple as: if there's a CO leak, the alarm will go off, and we'll evacuate the house with our kids before danger?

My investigation discovered that it isn't. It's supposed to be like that, but it isn't.

So if you have kids under the age of 14, and you heat your home with gas, listen closely.

The Safety Law Says 70 PPM. Science Says Something Very Different.

A scale of carbon monoxide concentration in PPM marked at 0, 30, 50 and 70. A child can lose consciousness is marked at 50 PPM; the standard detector only alarms at 70 PPM. The entire band between 50 and 70 is hatched in red and labelled legal and silent.

In 1992, the U.S. government established the minimum legal alarm threshold for carbon monoxide detectors to be 70 parts per million (PPM).

That means, CO detectors are legally allowed to have sensors that can't detect below 70 PPM.

But here's what most parents don't know:

That 70 PPM number was calculated around a 180-pound adult body. The tests, the exposure levels, the safety math - all of it assumed a grown adult.

But a child is not an adult.

A child's body is up to 3 times smaller. Their heart beats faster, and they breathe almost twice as fast as you do. A child absorbs carbon monoxide far faster than an adult in the exact same room.

Children commonly begin losing consciousness around 50 PPM - a full twenty points below where the alarm is even required to make a sound. And levels of 60 to 70 PPM, still legal, still silent, can be fatal.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Your detector is legally allowed to stay completely silent through the exact levels that put a child on the floor.

This creates a repeated situation where parents don't realize their child is poisoned until it's too late.

A poisoned adult feels dizzy and knows something is wrong. A poisoned child just gets sleepy. They rub their eyes, say their tummy hurts, and lie down on the couch. So instead of calling for help, parents tuck them in. By the time the detector goes off at 70 PPM and the parents run to their kids' room, they often discover it's already too late.

That is why, despite most families having detectors, thousands of children are poisoned every winter.

Not because the parents were careless. Because the device on the wall was never built to warn them in time for a child.

The Reason It Was Never Fixed (Who Actually Benefits From Keeping It at 70 PPM)

Why would a standard this dangerous to children go unchanged for over thirty years?

The answer has almost nothing to do with safety. It has to do with money.

Ever since 1992 when the law came out, detector manufacturers have hired the best lawyers and lobbied to keep the threshold where it is.

Their argument, made to regulators and state legislatures, is a logical-sounding one:

If detectors are required to detect lower levels, their sensors become significantly more expensive to manufacture. And if they cost more, fewer families will buy them. And fewer detectors in homes means more deaths, not fewer.

And that argument was enough to allow them to play regulatory games that kept regulators from acting.

Every time a legislative push got close, the industry spent what it needed to slow it down.

The result?

The detectors on store shelves are still only required to alarm at 70 PPM…

The manufacturers make maximum profits selling minimum-code, cheap sensors…

And thousands of children get poisoned by carbon monoxide every single year.

But One Company Decided To Do Something About It

When a safety tech company called Olyra was doing research to consider adding a carbon monoxide detector to their product line, they discovered an opportunity.

They saw the chasm between what the science said was dangerous for a child and what the detectors were actually built to catch.

They saw that more than 5,000 children get poisoned every single year.

And they saw that every detector on the market was designed to meet the minimum code, and nothing more.

Most companies would have built the cheap version to have similar profit margins to their competitors. But Olyra did the opposite.

Their goal was simple: Build a detector to the level that actually protects a child. Not the level the law lets you get away with.

It nearly bankrupted them. The sensor it took to catch carbon monoxide that early cost four times more than a minimum-code unit.

But their bet was simple, and it was right:

Build the one detector that actually saves kids, and the families it saves will spread the word about it. When the word spreads. The money will follow.

And that's exactly what happened. Today, TrueDetect is considered one of the most important safety devices of the decade.

A mother takes a selfie in her hallway holding up her TrueDetect carbon monoxide detector, her young son leaning into the shot from the doorway behind her.
★★★★★

Saved my kids!

Furnace cracked overnight in November. TrueDetect hit 31 PPM and detectors along with the phone alarms woke the whole house. Both kids were outside in under two minutes. The detector that came with our house never made a sound. TrueDetect probably saved my kid's life. I'm forever grateful for that.

Jenna R.

★★★★★

After what happened to my friend's daughter, this was non-negotiable

My friend lost her 7 year old to CO poisoning last year. She told me to get this one as she did. I did. Honestly I sleep better now. The app is a nice bonus too. Really impressive device. Highly recommend.

Paula M.

★★★★★

The Only Thing That Gives Me Peace Of Mind

Our furnace leaked last October, and my son passed out before any of us knew what was happening. He was unconscious when we found him. He's okay now, thank God, but I will never forget that. The ER doctor told me to get TrueDetect so it won't happen again. I don't think I could sleep at night without it now. If you have kids, please don't wait for something like this to happen. These things happen! Get it.

Rachel T.

What TrueDetect Actually Does, And Why It Saves So Many Lives

A TrueDetect carbon monoxide detector plugged into a wall outlet on an upstairs landing at night, its colour display reading 0000 PPM, with a child's bedroom door ajar and a nightlight glowing behind it.

Standard CO detectors give you one piece of information: whether CO levels have crossed 70 PPM.

But as you already know by now, at 70 PPM a child may already be unconscious. Especially if they're asleep in their room down the hall.

That's why TrueDetect alarms at 30 PPM, not 70.

30 PPM is hours before carbon monoxide starts threatening your child's life - when there's still plenty of time to get your kids up and out of the house.

And to make sure nothing can happen when you are not home, TrueDetect can connect to all the smartphones in your home with one click of a button. So once a leak happens, all the phones in your home will go off with a loud alarm. Even on silent mode. And even if you are not at home.

Making sure that no matter what, you will know when a leak happens in your children's rooms, and you will know it hours before danger.

But what I like about TrueDetect the most, is that it also shows the exact CO level on a screen, from just 1 PPM. So you catch a slow leak when it just shows up as chronic fatigue, headaches, or the flu (Which can happen for weeks or even months before an emergency).

You just plug it into any outlet in a few seconds, and it immediately starts monitoring your air 24/7 for a full 10 years. Not 5 years like standard detectors - 10 years. And it will send you a notification once it reaches the end of its life.

Nearly a third of homes are running on an expired detector right now and have no idea. With TrueDetect, you'll never be one of them.

If You Heat Your Home With Gas, This Isn't Optional

An ageing gas furnace standing in an unfinished basement, its galvanized flue pipe running up into the ceiling joists, lit by a single bare bulb.

I'll be blunt, because this is your children's lives that we're talking about, and the research left me no room to be gentle.

The detector on your wall was almost certainly built to the 70 PPM minimum. Which means if your furnace, water heater, or any fuel-burning appliance leaks tonight, your detector won't let you know what's happening to your kid until it's too late.

You don't get a second chance with carbon monoxide. There's no "we'll catch it earlier next time." There's the night it happens, and whether your detector warned you in time, or didn't.

So do not take that risk.

Don't put your children's lives in the hands of a detector that most likely won't help them when they need it most.

You are risking nothing when getting TrueDetect to protect your family.

Olyra backs every unit with a 90-day money-back guarantee.

So if you're not convinced it's the protection your kids should've had all along, or if you simply don't like it for any reason, you send it back and get every penny you paid back.

The risk sits with them, not you.

The Only Risk You Face Is One Of Pain And Regret If You Don't Act Now

An ordinary suburban house at winter dusk, snow across the lawn, every window lit warm gold and a child's nightlight glowing in an upstairs window, with a faint plume of vapour rising from the furnace flue on the roof.

The coldest months of the year, when 90% of CO poisoning deaths happen, are almost here.

And the problem is, when your furnace runs for weeks straight, it doesn't need to break to fill your home with carbon monoxide. Just a hairline crack that suddenly forms overnight is all it takes.

Carbon monoxide gives no warning. You can't see it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it. And your kids can't tell you it's happening. To them, it just feels like being sleepy.

The only thing you can do is make sure that if, God forbid, something happens in your home on a cold day, your children will survive without any harm.

How I see it, you have two options. And each one has a completely different consequence.

A split image. Option 1 shows a dark child's bedroom at night with a plain round white alarm on the wall, silent. Option 2 shows the same room lit and awake, a TrueDetect detector glowing in the wall outlet and a mother lifting her son up into her arms.

Option 1:

You tell yourself that a sudden CO leak won't happen in your home - that a furnace can't suddenly crack, a flue can't suddenly shift, an appliance that ran fine for years can't suddenly fail - and you decide to keep the minimum-code detectors you have.

And maybe you'll get lucky. Maybe your kids won't fall victim to carbon monoxide this winter, and winters to come.

But if you don't get lucky… If carbon monoxide starts filling your home one cold night… your children won't know anything is wrong. They'll just feel tired. They'll lie down. And they'll drift off to sleep long before your detector - sitting silently at 50, at 60 PPM - is ever allowed to make a sound.

So think about this option deeply… Because that's a night you don't get to redo.

Or, you can simply go for the safe option…

Option 2:

You can decide to not take any risk with your children's lives, and give them the real safety they deserve during these cold months.

You can finally experience the peace of mind that comes with knowing your kids are truly safe in their rooms… without ever thinking about the silent killer again.

No more wondering if your appliances are releasing carbon monoxide.

No more wondering if your children will be warned in time in case of a serious leak.

From the moment you plug TrueDetect across your home, you will know what's in your air. You will know the exact CO levels in your children's rooms - whether it's levels that can make them feel awful for weeks, or whether it's levels that can turn fatal within a few hours.

Your home will become what it was supposed to be all along - the safest place in the world for you and your children.

A safe, peaceful place you don't wonder once whether your kids are safe in it. You know they are.

And you'll feel satisfied with yourself, knowing you took responsibility and did what's needed to keep your children safe.

Knowing you left no chance for having pain and regret for making the wrong decision.

This is the life waiting for you on the other side of that simple decision to get TrueDetect for your home.

Remember - you've got nothing to lose.

You either absolutely love TrueDetect and the safety it provides for your children, OR you get your money back.

It's a win-win.

Either way, after learning what you learned today, you can't just do nothing about it.

While it's not your fault that you didn't know the detector in your home was set to a standard that makes your children vulnerable, it's now your responsibility to fix it.

I still thank God every day that I discovered TrueDetect. It's the only thing that ended the anxiety I had after those 3 months of research.

It gave me peace of mind.

And I'm just one of thousands of people who will tell you that.

You owe it to yourself and your children.

It's time to do the smart thing, the right thing for your family, while you still can.

I managed to get an insane discount after I told Olyra's team that I am going to publish this report. So you're very lucky you discovered it here today.

Note, the discount is only available on the link they provided me with, and I can only provide it here.

So click the button below to apply your discount and secure real safety for your children.

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