Hand Sanitizer

Thank you, Ginger!

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I checked this story out on Truth or Fiction.com which verified it
except for the alcohol blood level -

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.

--Anyway, the danger is real, so parents, grandparends, aunts, uncles
and teachers - BE CAREFUL! - Barbara

This comes from Reno DeSchaine and worth sharing to all of you grandparents.  MM

Story was verified at:  http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle who is jus t 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 in. 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 school kids from ingesting this stuff?

After doing research on the Internet, we found out that it only takes
about 3 squirts of this stuff ingested to be fatal to a toddler!

For her blood alcohol level to be so high, it would be like someone
her size drinking 120 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 who has children or are
planning to have children.

It doesn't matter what age. This could affect any one of them .