[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

Thu Mar 5 02:37:08 UTC 2009

I've a friend who's daughter is allergic to it because she's allergic to all 
kinds of alcohol.  Her dad--my friend's husband--cannot even eat at 
restaurants where they use cooking alcohol in food.
I don't think hand sanitizer belongs in the school setting because the 
teachers don't--or can't--watch the children or help the children with 
personal care, even helping kindergartners zip coats.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:46 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

> 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
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> *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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