Warning for all Parents / Grandparents...

[Roland]

Subject: Warning for all Parents / Grandparents...

This was passed onto me. No I'm not the Grandparent mentioned. But better to pass on and let others decide for themself as to the validity of this.

 

Yesterday, my youngest granddaughter, 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 .                  

 

 

 

This can also be verified on truth or fiction...  http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hand-sanitizer.htm

 

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

 

This is not a Joke! This is a Warning for all parents / grandparents PLEASE OPEN !!!

 

Warning for all parents/grandparents, a friend sent this to me and I thought it was important enough to send on...we all know someone with children --

 

 

Also confirmed on About.com:  Urban legends.  G.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Grasshopper Lofts]

well done for posting this roland much appreciated

[Guest bigda]

thanks for the post rolland what would happen ,if it was used on the  birds around the neck area

[bird man of meath]

thank you for posting this

my middle child is always at the stuff

will be keeping a closer eye on her from now on

thank you again.

[Fair Play]

The frightening thing about this is the older kids try a lot of things for kicks think it should be removed and replaced with the old "Carbolic Soap" seemed to kill off all known germs but I never tried to eat it the frothing mouth would have been a dead giveaway

[micko and jack]

Roland RAIBH MAITH AGAT MO CHARA (Irish) THANK YOU MY FRIEND jack has just finished potty training and hes taught to flush and wash his hands and if we are in the car i have a hand wash in the car and put it on his hands after him going to the toilet and hes mad for licking his hands SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ME as i'm sure its important for others

thanks a million mo chara (my friend) mick and jack

[ribble]

Yes they have had to change it the Hospitals round here, because the p*ss pots are drinking it.

[Guest]

Roland RAIBH MAITH AGAT MO CHARA (Irish) THANK YOU MY FRIEND jack has just finished potty training and hes taught to flush and wash his hands and if we are in the car i have a hand wash in the car and put it on his hands after him going to the toilet and hes mad for licking his hands SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ME as i'm sure its important for others

thanks a million mo chara (my friend) mick and jack

You have nothing to worry about Mick, this is more myth than truth, its possible as in the example Roland gave but that story has been going around for yeards.   Possible but highly unlikely as alchohol evaporates which is why its used, it does not stay on the skin as your made to believe and you'd have to ingest (drink or eat) an awful lof of the stuff to get ill.  Teach the lad to wash his hands in good old soap and water mate.