This is not a Joke! This is a Warning for all parents / grandparents!!!
(THIS IS NOT MY DAUGHTER BUT SOMEONE WHO SHARED THIS IMFORMATION WITH ME)
Liquid hand sanitizer can be extremely dangerous for toddlers and small children!
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 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.. 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 her size 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
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Dear God, it’s so horrible. So how’s Halle now? I think we must stop using liquid hand sanitizer which has many kind of scent like we have now. I think liquid hand sanitizer should smell bad or scentless perhaps. It would be better. The most important thing is that we must keep that stuffs in a certain place and accompany our kids while they’re using it to wash their hands. This is a very useful info, Debbie. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteTHE MORE WE USE THIS STUFF THE GERMS WITH GET USE TO IT AND THEN IT WILL NOT WORK ANY MORE KILLING NOTHING. THEY SAY...DON'T USE IT JUST CLEAN WITH PLAIN SOAP AND WATER KILLS MORE GERMS THEN THE SANITIZERS DO. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT?
ReplyDeleteThis is surprising that hand sanitizers can cause this reaction in kids. Some of them contain alcohol, which replaced the useless triclosan in earlier formulas. So far, my wife hasn't had any problem with her daycare kids using these chemicals.
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