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- From: "Melissa Buono ( hireAbility)" <mbuono@camdencc.edu>
- To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] Hand Sanitizers
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:05:14 -0400
How do I get off this mailing
list????
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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Re: [MSAR] Hand Sanitizers,
Melissa Buono ( hireAbility), 05/31/2007
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