[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[Eva Adams]

This story was verified at: 
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp


Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle , who is 4, was
rushed
to the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargic and  incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for  being 'very VERY sick.'

He told me that when he arrived, Halle was barely sitting in
the chair. She couldn't hold her own head up and when he looked into  her eyes, she couldn't focus them.
He immediately scooped her up and rushed her to the ER, and then called me. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was  normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that he  had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint  Francis for further tests.   Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher came to the ER and, after questioning Halle's classmates, we found out that  she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand.

Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different  scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all  kinds of things into their mouths.

When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to check her blood alcohol level, and yes we did get weird looks, but  they did it. The results showed her blood alcohol level was 85% --   six hours after we first took her. There's no telling what it would  have been if we would have requested it at the first ER. Since then, her school and a few surrounding schools have taken this out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes, but  what's to stop middle and high school kids from ingesting the stuff?

After doing research on the Internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high was to compare someone her  size to drinking something 120 proof. So please PLEASE don't disregard  this because I don't ever want anyone else to go through what my  family and I have gone through. Please send this to everyone you know who has children or are going to be having children. It doesn't matter what age.