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- From: "Hal Sikes" <halsikes@hotmail.com>
- To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [MSAR] Hand Sanitizers
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 02:14:53 -0700
Take the time to also check out the complete article at
Snopes..........definitely something we all need to be aware of with small
children.
Poisoning
This was verified on Snopes.com. It's not just email hype.
Please pass on to those who have small children or work with them. We also
need to be aware that older kids could "experiment" with it as well. It is
easily obtainable: no restrictions, no age-verification needed,
etc.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
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 tests.
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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[MSAR] Hand Sanitizers,
Hal Sikes, 05/31/2007
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