[blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids

[Amber Boggs]

Daive, Very true. I did not even look at the actual number. LOL I was very 
warn out.
Amber
Amber Boggs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] hand sanitizer not good for kids


> 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
>>View Stories B
>>
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