I’m sure some of you have seen this. It’s an e-mail about the dangers of hand sanitizer that’s been going around. It’s probably good for anyone with little ones to be aware of.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
>> >>and it is true……and very scary considering how
>> >>much we use it at school!
>
> 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.
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We use it all the time too. I have four of them in the car, one in the diaper bag, one in my purse, one in the kitchen, and one in the bathroom. Myles even asks for it! 
