* hand sanitizer [didn't happen to our family]

Yesterday, my youngest daughter, Halle who's just 4 years old, was rushed to the ER by her father for being severely lethargic & incoherent in her classroom. He was called to her school by the school secretary who said that she was 'VERY VERY SICK'! He told me that when he arrived at her classroom, Halle was barely sitting in the chair. She couldn't hold her own head up & when he looked into her eyes, she couldn't focus them. He immediately scooped her up & rushed her to the closest ER & then called me. When he got there, they ran blood test after blood test & did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. When I arrived at the ER, the doctor there told us that he'd done everything that he could do so he was transferring her to Saint Francis Hospital for further tests. Right as we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher arrived at the ER & told us that after questioning Halle's classmates, she'd found out that our little girl had licked liquid hand sanitizer off of her hands! Hand sanitizer, of all things, but it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents & flavors & when you've a curious child, they're going to put all kinds of things into their mouths. When we arrived at the Saint Francis' Hospital ER, we told the ER doctor there to check her blood alcohol level & 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'd have been if we'd have requested it at the first ER. Since then, her school & a few surrounding schools have taken the liquid hand sanitizers out of all the lower grade classes, but what's to stop middle & high schoolers from ingesting this stuff? After doing research on the Internet, we found out that it only takes about 3 squirts of the stuff ingested to be fatal to a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high, it'd be like someone her size drinking 120 proof liquor. So PLEASE PLEASE don't disregard this because we don't ever want another family to go through what ours has gone through. Please send this to everyone you know that have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or cousins. It doesn't matter what age. This could affect anyone of them. This story was verified at: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp