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Not Likely · 2007-07-10T06:52:47+00:00

The following just came to me in my email... I checked it out and it is true (I hadn't heard of it before, but some of you may have). Just wanted to let you know in case you hadn't heard of it before.*hugs*Gemini---------This story was verified at: my youngest daughter, Halle, who is 4, was rushedto the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargicand incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretaryfor 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. Heimmediately scooped her up and rushed her to the ER, and thencalled me. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood testand did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell countwas normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told usthat he had done everything that he could do so he was sending herto Saint Francis for further tests. Right when we were leaving inthe ambulance, her teacher came to the ER and, after questioningHalle's classmates, we found out that she had licked hand sanitizeroff 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...

Jul 10, 2007 21 Replies

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spampot 19 years ago

First & second at Resurrection in East Lansing, MI; then we moved home to Champaign-Urbana (St. Matthews) for two years, back to Resurrection for two more! (but I think by then we had ceased to be given paste for Art class) then out to the East Coast to old St. Mary's in Alexandria, Va...

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YarnWright 19 years ago

spampot spun a FINE 'yarn':

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