A mom on my friend's list posted this in her journal today. I want to share it with you all!
I had this article forwarded to me from friends about hand sanitizer if sniffed or licked by toddlers..it could cause serious illness or death. I thought it's very important to share it with all moms.
You can read more about it on this link:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
And the message I got on email is quoted here:
Ok. 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.
Thank you
Lacey Butler and family
Please post this in your journals or in your groups and send it to other moms.
They have safer ones that are not toxic to kids ,handi cleanse is one that is now being widely used in hospitals and dr offices .
Scared-Central Apnea
- akhlass
on May. 29, 2007 at 4:30 AM