WARNING!!! Hand Sanitisers and Small Children

[alioops]

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 ..

[Lolli]

I was wondering about thisa stuff the other day, for some reason ds loves to use it. I'll have to keep a good eye on him with it in future... thanks ali

[Turkish Delight]

Thanks Ali.

It does make sense as it is pure ethanol, which is alcohol.

[HotI]

The results showed her blood alcohol level was 85% --
six hours afterwe first took her..

i think they missed a decimal point there, or the kid was doing more than lick the cleaner from her hands

[AnyDream]

Kate that's what I thought!! LOL Though it makes sense, I'm always really careful with the stuff I have at home. You feel alcoholic just sitting in the fumes as it dries off your hands...

[alioops]

Snopes said there may be some errors in transcription but that alcohol poisoning from them is definitely possible. There is another one floating around with a 2 year old who's Blood alcohol was 0.10.

[christy]

I don't like the stuff because of the chemical stuff... I still have it in my car just in case we have a side of the road nappy change or something, but other than that we don't use it because I'd rather some dirt get in their mouths than chemicals.

[Inanna]

Ooooh I have had this email too - but there is something a bit wrong here. Perhaps there is a decimal point missing? Or she drunk it.

It's wise to be careful but I would have to say I am incredibly suspicious that a child would have a reading like that by licking her hand....