Toddler Drinks Hand Sanitizer

It does contain alcohol and so should be stored like other potential poisons out of sight and out of reach.
Toddler drinks hand sanitizer. Do not drink hand sanitizer. Possible effects may include blindness brain damage and kidney and liver damage. Hand sanitizers come in brightly colored bottles can be laced with glitter and smell like bubble gum lemonade and vanilla packaging that makes them very tempting to young children.
Make sure youths do not put hands wet with sanitizer in their mouth. I d agree that the kid would be drunk if he consumed enough alcohol. While it is not absorbed through the skin as much as methanol this alcohol is toxic and will damage your nervous system and internal organs if you drink it.
Scented hand sanitizers particularly those with fruity scents that may entice a child to ingest the product should be avoided. If a child drinks sanitizer immediately call the poison help line at 800 222 1222. The poison control center likely will ask your husband to read the label of the bottle and they will tell him if the alcohol is poisonous or not some kinds of alcohol are.
Consider using non alcohol based products or sanitizing wipes. Teach kids the right way to use sanitizer so they use it safely in school or public places. Hand sanitizer containing isopropyl alcohol rubbing alcohol is used in hand sanitizer.
Hand sanitizer is usually alcohol and water and fragrances. This is particularly important for children especially toddlers who may be attracted by the pleasant smell or brightly colored bottles of hand sanitizer. Symptoms of ethanol intoxication in children can begin at a level of 50mg dl.
Hand sanitizer is anywhere from 70 to 95 percent alcohol which can cause major problems if a toddler drinks it. If one pump of a 62 ethanol containing hand sanitizer was ingested by an average 2 year old weighing 15 kg 33 lbs a blood alcohol level of 17 3 mg dl would be expected considerably below a toxic level of 80 100 mg dl. Should a child actually drink some call to poison control at 1 800 222 1222 immediately.