[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

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On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:38 PM, Eva Adams wrote:

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.
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