http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
This particular story happened in Tulsa, but according
to http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
it is not an isolated incident.
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 Lacey Butler and family
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