[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[David Andrews]

More true, but still off.  A blood alcohol level of .85 would still 
kill you.  I In most states over 0.08 is drunk, and most people pass 
out somewhere between 0.3 and 0.4.

Dave

At 11:55 PM 3/5/2009, you wrote:
>Here is what Truth or fiction has to say. This sounds way more like 
>the real storry. I am with David, 85% would kill her not just make 
>her out of it.
>Four-year old Girl Intoxicated From Hand Sanitizer-Truth!
>Summary of the eRumor:
>The author of the email says her 4-year old daughter ate hand 
>sanitizer at pre-school
>and was rushed to the hospital with potentially deadly alcohol intoxication.
>The Truth:
>The story is true, although with one glaring factual error.
>According to a Fox 23 Tulsa television interview with her parents, 
>Matt and Lacey
>Butler, Little Halle was in a pre-kindergarten class at Okmulgee 
>Primary School in
>Okmulgee, Oklahoma when a teacher did what seemed to be right, gave 
>Halle some hand
>sanitizer to clean her hands before eating lunch.  Instead of 
>rubbing it in, however,
>Halle ate it.  She licked it from her hand.  Shortly afterwards her 
>behavior was
>alarming enough that she was taken to a local hospital.  Matt Butler 
>says that when
>he arrived at the emergency room, his daughter was leaning against a 
>wall, that her
>eyes would not focus, and she could not walk.
>Doctors determined that she was intoxicated.
>The eRumor says her blood alcohol level was 85 percent, which nobody 
>would survive
>so that figure is obviously wrong.  The writer may have meant to say 
>.85 percent.
>Hand sanitizers have an alcohol level of more than 60 percent.  Hard 
>liquor, by comparison,
>is 40 percent alcohol while most beers are less than 5 percent alcohol.
>Unlike other poisons and alcoholic beverages, however, most hand 
>sanitizers are easily
>accessible to children and most of us would not think about the danger.
>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that alcohol can cause 
>drunkenness as
>well as serious poisoning leading to seizures, coma, and even death 
>in young children---and
>that children are more sensitive to the toxic effects of alcohol than adults.
>Updated 5-25-07
>A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
>Ok. I don't know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life 
>have been such
>a blur. 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 that 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 called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to 
>the ER. 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 test.
>Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come 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 differents scents and when you have a curious child, 
>they are going
>to put all kinds of things in their mouths.
>When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to 
>check her blood
>alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from it but they 
>did it. The results
>were her blood alcohol level was 85% and this was 6 hours after we 
>first took her.
>Theres no telling what it would have been if we would have tested 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 whats to stop middle and high 
>schoolers too? After
>doing research off 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 to go thru what my 
>family and I have
>gone thru. Today was a little better but not much. Please send this 
>to everyone you
>know that has children or are having children. It doesn't matter 
>what age. I just
>want people to know the dangers of this.
>Thank you
>Lacey Butler and family
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