Wow, maybe some RW family/friends are finally getting the Snopes message

I often reply to some fundie relatives/friends who email me things by sending them a link to snopes. Looks like they finally got it (and included it at the end of this email)

Claim: Ingestion of hand sanitizer by children can result in alcohol poisoning.

(Status) True


ATTENTION TO ALL PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS



Yesterday my youngest daughter who is 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 then 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.


This can also be verified on truth or fiction, see below...

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hand-sanitizer.htm

This story was verified at:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

She would be dead, not drunk.

:rofl:

85%? Seriously?

I think the writer means .85%. A blood alcohol level of over 1% will kill you.

And if not, I will be doing a lot of hand licking later.

:hi:

.30 = 3 tenths of 1%
1% = 1.00%

Parents are sending their little kids to school with pocket-size bottles of the stuff. It never even occurred to me that kids might be tempted to eat it or lick it off of their hands. The district should be addressing this issue. I think I'll bring it up.

This is done under adult supervision who make sure kids do not eat the really foul tasting stuff.

Schools are plague factoreis, and disease runs rampant through them. Anything they do to limit contagion and teach children to wash their hands is appreciated.