[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[Michael Baldwin]

Surprisingly, this one is true, although the facts might be a little off.
Anyone with an 85% BAC would be dead, adult or otherwise.  But if the
product is used like it is supposed to be, there is no harm to parents or
children.  The bottle does state to keep out of reach of kids.  And studies
have shown using the hand sanitizer leads to less sickness and such then
just plane old hand washing.
So, in my opinion, it is common sense really, don't let your kid get it, and
when you put it on their hands, help them rub it in so they are not tempted
to lick it.  


Michael Baldwin
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Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

*sigh* Are? You? Serious?

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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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