I got this email this morning and checked it on Snopes, and it is TRUE!!! If you have it, still use it but dont let little kids put it anywhere near their mouths!!
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 saidthat she was 'VERY VERY SICK'!
He told me that when he arrived at her classroom, Halle was barely
sitting in the chair.She couldn'thold her own head up and when
he looked into her eyes, shecouldn'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 wasout of the ordinary. When
I arrived at the ER, the doctor there toldus 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 goingto 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 alcohollevel, and yes we did get weird looks, but
they did it..The results showed her blood alcohol level was 85% -- six hours afterwe 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 hersize
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 ..
Bookmarks