Becca - posted on 04/07/2009 ( 2 moms have responded )
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Warning for all parents/grandparents, any one who babysits! a friend
sent this to me and I thought it was important enough to
send on.....we all know someone with children --
Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle who is just 4 years old, was
rushed to the ER by her father for being severely lethargic and
incoherent in her classroom. He was called to her school by the
school secretary who said that she was 'VERY VERY SICK ' !
He told me that when he arrived at her classroom, 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 closest ER, and
then called me. When he 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.
When I arrived at the ER, the doctor there told us that he had done
everything that he could do so he was transferring her to
Saint Francis Hospital for further tests.
Right as we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher arrived at the
ER and told us that after questioning Halle 's classmates, She had found
out that our little girl had licked liquid hand sanitizer off of her
hands !!! Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense.These days
they have all kinds of different scents and flavors and when you have a
curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things into their
mouths.
When we arrived at the Saint Francis' Hospital ER, 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 the
liquid hand sanitizers out of all the lower grade classes, but what's to
stop middle and high schoolers from ingesting this stuff?
After doing research on the Internet, we found out that it only takes
about 3 squirts of the stuff ingested to be fatal to a toddler.
For her blood alcohol level to be so high, it would be like someone her
size drinking120 proof liquor. So PLEASE PLEASE don't disregard this
because we don't ever want another family to go through what ours has
gone through.
Please send this to everyone you know who has children or are planning
to have children. It doesn't matter what age. This could affect anyone
of them .
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