[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[Eva Adams]

Yes it is on there.  The web address is posted at the top of the original 
post.  No the 85% isn't right, and it says so.  It says that is the only 
thing that isn't true.

Eva
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids


>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
>
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> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids
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>>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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