Can a neighbor's exhaust fumes cause carbon monoxide symptoms?

Question

I live in a seniors mobile home park, and my mobile home is rather old and has no A/C. I have a neighbor who had someone start an old car of hers the other day, and she left it running for over an hour. I could smell exhaust fumes all through my house.

For the rest of that day and the following, I had vague symptoms -- headache, slight nausea, light-headedness. Shortness of breath, though some of that's expected during allergy season. I felt very lethargic.

I'm fine now. Might this have been CO, or was it possibly just the general heat or a bug of some kind? 

Best guess, please.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yes it could have been carbon monoxide you need to get you a detector they are not that expensive and I know from past experience that if you leave a car open and the fumes enter your house it will set the alarm off. Them you get out and report neighbor to cops or fire department.

Anonymous · Answer

You would not have gotten carbon monoxide poisoning as you were not in an enclosed space right with the vehicle.  Your symptoms probably were just from smelling the exhaust but not a sign of poisoning.  The car was out in the open so there was plenty of air ciculating around it.

ted j · Answer

Exhaust fumes are nauseating  Talk to the neighbor next time it happens.  Some will understand.  Close your windows.

mel s · Answer

I think you have to be closed in to get co poisoning, but that is not to say that the fumes didn't make you sick, just not carbon mon. poisoning

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