Hand sanitizer

This is scary!!!!!!!!!!!Please read and pass onto everyone you know with
>children.
>
>
> >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
>
> >Lacey Butler and family
>
>Linda Gnam
>Project Coordinator
>Industry Development
>Livestock Products Branch
>Fairview, AB T0H 1L0
>Phone: (780)835-7546
>Cell:(780)835-1514


I looked online and found that this is true. This can be very dangerous. You likely already know but I never, so thought I would share....

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