Please read if u have small
children..........
(This is true - NOT a hoax.. I
investigated it.)
"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 emergancy 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
differents 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.
Theres 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 whats 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"
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3636 Location: Orlando, FL Usa
Thanks: 5
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Posted: 05-29-07 08:03am
You should send that to mythbusters that
would probably make an interesting show (I
love that show!)
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Kia
Supporter
Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 6594 Location: Planet Tampaxia,
Posted: 05-29-07 09:44am
locked.
do you realise how much alcohol a child
would have to consume to get a blood
acohol level of 85% - in fact is it even
possible to have a blood alcohol level of
85% (even as an adult) and not be dead?
If anyone else (because this isn't the
first post of this kind, so please don't
take it personal diane) has any of these
scaremongering posts - please contact a
moderator (any moderator) first.
while these products do contain alcohol,
it is common sense that you keep these
kinds of things away from children excpet
under supervision.
a simple "lick" of a gel or sanitiser that
had been rubbed into the hand would not
result in alcohol poisoning - that
requires ingestion of a significant
quantity of the product.
