ChefBeckyD
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Just got this email from a host/friend.......I did check it out on Snopes.com too - it's for real!!!
http://snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
This one is true on snopes.com
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
http://snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp
This one is true on snopes.com
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