[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[David Andrews]

I find this hard to believe -- anyone with an 85 percent blood 
alcohol level would be dead.  You couldn't get much from licking your 
hands, and alcohol evaporates quickly anyway.

Dave

At 02:38 AM 3/4/2009, you 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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