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Warning for all parents/grandparents
This story was verified at: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
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, 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 ER, and then
called me.
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 tests.
Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher came
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 into their mouths.
When we arrived at Saint Francis, 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
this out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes, but
what's to stop middle and high schoolers from ingesting the stuff?
After doing research on 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 else to go through
what my family and I have gone through.
Please send this to everyone you know who has children or are
going to be having children. It doesn't matter what age. Email
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