Hand Sanitizers

Bozzini
By Bozzini

MEDICAL ALERT!! -- Warning for all parents/grandparents

"Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle who is just 4 years old, was rushed to the ER by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent in her classroom. He was called to her school by the school secretary who said that she was 'VERY, VERY SICK'!
He told me that when he arrived at her classroom, 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 closest ER, and then called me. When he 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. When I arrived at the ER, the doctor there told us that he had done everything that he could do so he was transferring her to Saint Francis Hospital for further tests.
Right as we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher arrived at the ER and told us that after questioning Halle's classmates, she had found out that our little girl had licked liquid hand sanitizer off of her hands !!!
Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents and flavors and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things into their mouths.
When we arrived at the Saint Francis' Hospital ER, 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 the liquid hand sanitizers out of all the lower grade classes, but what's to stop middle and high schoolers from ingesting this stuff?
After doing research on the Internet, we found out that it only takes about 3 squirts of the stuff ingested to be fatal to a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high, it would be like someone her size drinking120 proof liquor.
So PLEASE PLEASE don't disregard this because we don't ever want another family to go through what ours has gone through.
Please send this to everyone you know that have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or cousins..
It doesn't matter what age. This could affect anyone of them."

Source:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hand-sanitizer.htm

Warning for all parents/grandparents, a friend sent this to me and I thought it was important enough to send on.....we all know someone with children --

By ashwindoke• 14 Oct 2009 14:48
ashwindoke

Hmm...

So from now on Hand Sanitizers and even Cough Syrups shall be sold by QDC .....

thks for sharing though....

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By Ice Maiden• 14 Oct 2009 14:21
Ice Maiden

I lick wont do harm, but as is the case with children her age, she must have ingested a copious amount, thereby causing harm.

By anonymous• 14 Oct 2009 11:14
anonymous

Thanks for the heads up. I'll remember not to lick my fingers after sanitizing them at the fitness center.

By anonymous• 14 Oct 2009 11:11
anonymous

Plus remember that the alcohol in hand sanitiser will evaporate very quickly (that is why it feels cold) so as long as you make the kids rub it in to their hands there is no danger at all

By anonymous• 14 Oct 2009 11:10
Rating: 4/5
anonymous

Not 100% true. Her blood alcohol certainly wasn't 85% or she would have been dead long ago. Plus she clearly did more than lick her hand (unless she put a giant glob on it) even at 60% alcohol a 4 year old would need more than a lick to be in trouble.

Just because it is alcohol people seem to have got all excited. You should supervise young children with all cleaning products, none are very good for you if injested.

By ranishkt• 14 Oct 2009 09:32
ranishkt

thanx so much for the post ... am so used to carrying hand sanitizers when i take kids out to playground or for shopping .... this is an alert ...

By anonymous• 14 Oct 2009 09:24
Rating: 3/5
anonymous

Thanks Baldrick for your link...now a lot of hand-sanitizers are going to be sold around the Industrial Area.

And the fake alcohol thats selling around that area will loose their business ...lol

By baldrick2dogs• 14 Oct 2009 08:16
Rating: 2/5
baldrick2dogs

I'm always wary of these types of post but this is 100% true!!!

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hand-sanitizer-warning.shtml

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