Alright Jumptrout, don't get any ideas

[Barhopr]

Of course, this is from a forward my mother got from a friend of hers:

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.
Now every bum in town will be sucking the gell out of the bathroom sanitizer dispensers.
I added that last part

[Jumptrout51]

Interesting read. What brand sanitizer?

[Eerman]

Interesting read. What brand sanitizer?

Mix that with a little snot cat slime and your in business

[Dubble Trubble]

Just another one of those BS urban legends being posted on the internet.......

Dubble

[QueenB]

Actually I don't think it is an urban legend. I heard something similar on a reputable new channel recently. Most all of the hand sanitizers are mostly alcohol so it is possible, I guess. Not sure the amount that would be necessary to affect a child but I guess I will stop washing my kids mouth out with Hand Sanitizer when they talk ugly...haha...just kidding!

[Capt Reggie]

Interesting read. What brand sanitizer?

Just stick with beer, JT, you're safer that way!
Seriously, great post, Barhopr,who would have thought...handsanitizer+alcohol=

[reel therapy]

Just another one of those BS urban legends being posted on the internet.......

Dubble

Snopes is on it

85% blood alcohol level....

[Jumptrout51]

Please do not try to confuse these threads with facts.

[reel therapy]

Please do not try to confuse these threads with facts.

Well....the title of the thread had your name, and the article mentioned an 85% blood alcohol level.

[Mook!]

...another fine public service announcement brought to you by the makers of lye soap...err I mean a concerned parents' group...yah that's the ticket!

Pardon me while I beat a dead horse:

Since this happened at a grade school, let's do some grade school math (may also be known as 'college math' if you are from Gainesville or surrounding areas)...

The commonly accepted lethal blood alcohol content is 0.40% give or take a few hundredths depending on the physiology of the victim. (Do not attempt to argue this fact...it was in the teacher's edition and is therefore correct, and the children were informed in writing thereof)

So if we convert that to laymen's terms, that's zero-point-four-zero percent.

In simpler terms, that's four tenths of one percent; not forty percent as people often misread it to mean...this is 0.40 out of 100.00, not 0.40 out of 1.00

We could further simplify that down to two fifths of one percent by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor, which is in this case, 2.

IF we make that in to a word problem, it may go something like this:
"Halle's blood alcohol content is 85%. With whom is she drinking?"
Acceptable correct answers would include Catholic Jesus, Elvis, Janis Joplin, Ernest Hemmingway etc. because Halle is D-E-A-D dead. Any answer listing only dead people shall receive full credit, and each answer naming a person who died an alcohol-related death shall receive an additional 85% extra credit per answer to the overall score, up to a maximum 21,250% (the fifth grade teacher's edition explains in detail how to calculate this).

If we give the benefit of the doubt to the purveyor of this important, urgent message, and we assume that he or she misinterpreted an actual reading of 0.85 to mean eighty-five percent, and we then assume this poor, sweet, helpless little girl had a BAC of only 0.85% and not 85%, then the melodrama is decreased somewhat, as we now have the child's actual BAC down to a more realistic 212.5% of the dose that would have killed our unfortunate "very very sick" child.

Laugh it up if you want to, but DO NOT MISUNDERESTIMATE THE DANGERS OF ANTI-BACTERIAL ANTI-MICROBAL NON-TOXIC HUMAN SANITATION PRODUCTS!!

If we continue to ignore warnings like these, innocent children could die...several hundred times each...

[Crusty Gringo]

85%!!!!- my personal best is only 12%