Fwd: Hand sanitizer

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--- Ruth Spooner <memespoon wrote:

 

> Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:17:49 -0700 (PDT)

> Ruth Spooner <memespoon

> Fwd: Hand sanitizer

> Linda Allen <clallen

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> 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Snopes says this

> one is right on, so send it to everyone you

> know with small children.

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> I checked this out on www.truthorfiction.com They say it's true.

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> The story is told from the mom of the little girl

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> Ok. I don't know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life

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> have been such a blur. Yesterday, My youngest daughter Halle who is

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> 4, was rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely

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> lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school

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> secretary for being " very VERY sick. " He told me that when he arrived

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> that Halle was barely sitting in the chair. She couldn't hold her own

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> head up and when he looked into her eyes, she couldn't focus them.

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> He immediately called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to

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> the ER.

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> When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and

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> did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was

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> normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that

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> he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to

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> Saint Francis for further test.

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> Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to

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> the ER and after questioning Halle's classmates, we found out that

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> she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all

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> things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of

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> different scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to

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> put all kinds of things in their mouths.

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> When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to

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> check her blood alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from

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> it but they did it. The results were her blood alcohol level was .85

> (.85 percent according to Truth or Ficton Website)

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> and this was 6 hours after we first took her. There's no telling what

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> it would have been if we would have tested it at the first ER.

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> Since then, her school and a few surrounding schools have taken this

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> out of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes but what's to

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> stop middle and high schoolers too? After doing research off the

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> internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff

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> to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high

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> was to compare someone her size to drinking something 120 proof.

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> So please PLEASE don't disregard this because I don't ever want

> anyone

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> to go thru what my family and I have gone thru. Today was a little

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> better but not much. Please send this to everyone you know that has

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> children or are having children. It doesn't matter what age. I just

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> want people to know the dangers of this.

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> Thank you

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