My Mother just emailed this to me and I thought I would cut and paste it here... I know hand sanitizer is used in my DS's kindergarten class and I'm sure it is used in many others across the country so Its just something to think about and keep in mind....
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 doctor 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.
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 doctor 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.
