[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[Amber Boggs]

I would agree. This sounds very fake. Snoops is not always correct, but I 
have not even looked it up myself so not even sure if its really on there
Amber Boggs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids


>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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