Read!!!hand sanitize, swine flu and children

**oncedrove** · 09-27-2009, 06:01 PM

This is a parent and grandparent MUST read!!

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 sanitize off of her hands!!!

Hand sanitize, 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 ??% n 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 sanitizes 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 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 that have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or cousins. It doesn't matter what age. This could affect anyone of them ...

**Turtle** · 09-27-2009, 06:23 PM

snopes.com: Hand Sanitizer Alcohol Poisoning

**layoutshooter** · 09-27-2009, 09:51 PM

It is ALWAYS important to keep things like these hand sanitizers OUT of the reach of children. The high achocol content of these product is needed to kill the "bad things" that we are trying to kill. It is VERY hard on little kids.

**Moot** · 09-27-2009, 11:42 PM

One generation's hand sanitizer is another generation's airplane glue.

Hand sanitizer could replace Rustoleum with a Listerine chaser as the breakfast of champions among the skid-row elite.

**Humble2drive** · 09-28-2009, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by oncedrove

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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 sanitize off of her hands!!!

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I applaud this teacher for being on the ball and discovering the critical information. This saved poor little Halle from countless additional tests and it saved you from a much larger bill.

Thanks for the heads up.

**buddy** · 10-02-2009, 07:57 AM

Wood ahcohol, is generally the content.
At a recent outdoor concert here in michigan, it was dicovered that the young adults were drinking the hand sanitizer from the por-ta-johns. All solution was removed from around the concert. Nothing available to wash hands.

Glad to hear the grandaughter will be ok

**layoutshooter** · 10-02-2009, 09:32 AM

The Russians are FAMOUS for their drinking, much like the Scots. Many Russians pilots met their demise by drinking the alcohol based anti-freeze in their aircrafts de-icing systems and THEN taking off!! We used to keep score on how many of them "bit the dust" in that way. That score was right next to the "score" on how many of their test pilots "ate the runway" at their test sites. Just one less to worry about if we ever had to "mix it up" with them.