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05-24-2007, 08:02 AM | #1 |
Tiny Dog Big Heart Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Texas
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| Warning! If You Use Hand Sanitizers Please Read! This could be important to remember - if you use hand sanitizers don't let your dogs lick your hands! I can only imagine that it would be even more harmful to them due to their size. Please see the story below... http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp SNOPES confirms this is true. 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.
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05-24-2007, 08:14 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
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| WOW! Thank you so very much for this post. The hand sanitizer will go in the locked cabinet with all of the other potentially dangerous household stuff. |
05-24-2007, 12:06 PM | #4 |
Minnie's Mommy Donating YT Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: WA State
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| Thank you for posting I will be taking a copy to school when I pick up my granddaughter today.
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05-24-2007, 01:01 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas
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| Thanks! I have small grandchildren and I do use the stuff.
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05-24-2007, 06:57 PM | #6 |
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| Thanks for posting this! |
05-24-2007, 09:21 PM | #7 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California
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| How frightening and how lucky they were able to get her treated quickly. I remember hearing something a while back -- maybe on the local newscast --that was a review of the efficacy of various hand sanitizers compared to just soap and water. What was interesting was that the researchers found that soap and water removed germs the best, but that a plain water rinse removed more germs than any of the tested hand sanitizers. I don't know, but something that doesn't work all that well and is dangerous to boot sounds like another product we are convinced to buy just because it exists. I had a reaction to the liquid stuff the one time I tried it, but almost always have those wet towelett things with me. |
05-24-2007, 11:46 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 11K Club Member | Thanks for that! London always wants to lick me because my lotion smells so good but I never let her, since I don't know what chemicals, etc are in the lotion.
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