Please Take This To Heart this was e-mailed to me

[bluewolf]

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

[MRSBUSYMOM]

May. 25, 2007 at 12:49 PM THANKS 4 THE POST ,WE ALWAYS USE THIS

[FIVEHAPPYHEARTS]

May. 25, 2007 at 1:39 PM thanks i will repost  how dangerouse im glad she is okay

[zoejanesmom]

May. 25, 2007 at 1:48 PM

That's crazy!!!   I can't believe that hand sanitizer would do something like that!

[MitchMommyNY]

May. 25, 2007 at 8:56 PM It's impossible for a blood alcohol level to be 85%.  Absolutely, totally, medically impossible. That would mean that 85% of the blood in your entire body was pure alcohol.

[goatmom4]

May. 25, 2007 at 9:00 PM thank God she is ok    thats a miracle    

[sherry459]

May. 25, 2007 at 9:48 PM thank for the post and thank God that she is okay

[Jannell]

May. 25, 2007 at 10:56 PM Thank you for sharing this with us.  I'm so sorry for what you were going through, I can't even imagine.  My thoughts are with you and your family!

[jasminemg]

May. 25, 2007 at 11:00 PM Wow I would of never guessed

[detorres]

May. 25, 2007 at 11:20 PM  by detorres : I would of never thought that this could get a child drunk . It's something for all parents to be aware of products that has any kind of alcohol . It's good for parents or teachers to supervise children at times . I'm glad to know that your daughter is fine and we will keep her  and the family in our prayers as well. GOD Bless and Keep You All .

[sjlk1966]

May. 25, 2007 at 11:29 PM Wow, thanks for the info......my son's preschool and my daughter's elementary school both require hand sanitizer in their supply lists.  I hopeyour daughter is doing better.