Hand Sanitizer Warning

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This was emailed to me today. Snopes is pretty reliable on weeding

out urban legends, so we may want to watch carefully when our kiddos

use hand sanitizers.

- Clay

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

Ok. I don't know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life

have been such a blur. Yesterday, My youngest daughter Halle who is

4, was rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely

lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school

secretary for being " very VERY sick. " He told me that when he

arrived that 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 called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to

the ER. When we 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. The ER doctor told us that

he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to

Saint Francis for further test.

Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to

the ER and after questioning Halle 's classmates, we found out that

she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all

things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of

different scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to

put all kinds of things in their mouths.

When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to

check her blood alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from

it but they did it. The results were her blood alcohol level was 85%

and this was 6 hours after we first took her. There's no telling

what it would have been if we would have tested it at the first ER.

Since then, her school and a few surrounding schools have taken this

out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes but what's to

stop middle and high schoolers too? After doing research off the

internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff

to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high

was to compare someone her size to drinking something 120 proof. So

please PLEASE don't disregard this because I don't ever want anyone

to go thru what my family and I have gone thru. Today was a little

better but not much. Please send this to everyone you know that has

children or are having children. It doesn't matter what age. I just

want people to know the dangers of this.