Blood Alcohol leval 85% due to hand sanitizer licked by a child

[babymomma0306]

>>
>> 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 do
>> ctor 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.

[LYNDELOU]

Mar. 15, 2009 at 2:54 AM

This has been going around for a long time....Not sure if it was true or Hoax....It's a good post though, it needs to be seen...

Thanks for sharing Sweetie!!!

[zombie_mommy]

Mar. 15, 2009 at 3:49 AM

i've read this a long time ago,  but i feel its true, that stuff has so much alcohol in it.  i never use the stuff. 

[soonergirl83]

Mar. 15, 2009 at 3:57 AM

It is true that you can get drunk off of it. I know because my husband is a correctional officer and they are constantly having problems with the prisoners drinking it.

[Lb128f]

Mar. 15, 2009 at 5:17 AM

Thanks! http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp