Injesting hand sanitizer

[threebooks]

We have an individual that has consumed hand sanitizer because alcoholic bevrages were note available and it was. It contains over 60 alcohol. Any suggestions? Can topimax help?

[A Work in Progress]

Injesting hand sanitizer

"We have an individual"? Could you say a bit more?

[last call]

Injesting hand sanitizer

How about ER to get his stomach pumped.

[CS04]

Injesting hand sanitizer

How old is this person? Topamax will not help.

[peacenik]

Injesting hand sanitizer

this is a disturbing post, could you elaborate or come back and tell us what is going on?

[SpringerRider]

Injesting hand sanitizer

why are you asking here? This is an emergency and requires medical attention. Actually, I am calling BS on this post but will give you the benefit of the doubt. Take this person to the ER and if you are his friend, he needs better ones.

[A Work in Progress]

Injesting hand sanitizer

SpringerRider;542294 wrote: Actually, I am calling BS on this post but will give you the benefit of the doubt.

SR I am with you on this one... reluctant to "call out" a brand new person, but this looks like total nonsense. If this person has or knows about a genuine problem that "someone" is having, I hope s/he will come back and clarify.

[IAD]

Injesting hand sanitizer

Well, at least he'll have a clean Gualett.......IAD ( I think this is bull.......Ha! )

[brightlite]

Injesting hand sanitizer

Maybe you are the one that has ingested hand sanitizer. We are all here to help, please clarify.

[keeta]

Injesting hand sanitizer

One of the recent Interventions I watched (last Monday or the Monday before that) showed a young man who, while in the hospital, squeezed hand sanitizer into a glass and topped it off with water. He drank some, BUT I am not sure how much, and aside from the "television audience" I don't recall anyone addressing it. (like stomach pumping, etc. I am sure the camera crew informed somebody, because it MUST be poisonous to injest, but I don't know what if anything came of it.) That is the only time in my entire life I have heard of this. The alcohol in hand sanitizer is like the alcohol in rubbing alcohol, right??? So it is not the kind people can drink, right??

I sure hope if this is real, and you know of a person who did this...or if it was you, the poison control hotline was called for info,(like induce vomitting, or not, etc) and a hospital ER visit.
I sure hope this isn't a joke, because I am worried this could really hurt a person. So I am worried about the person you wrote about.

[A Work in Progress]

Injesting hand sanitizer

Keeta, I thought about the same thing... saw that same episode. I think you're right, that hand sanitizer is mostly "rubbing alcohol" which is indeed pretty toxic, if you drink enough of it (and some hard-core drunks have done that) you could really get in bad trouble... Nothing funny about it, at all...

[Heavenly]

Injesting hand sanitizer

I reckon this person watched the same programme ....

[IAD]

Injesting hand sanitizer

This just an old Sailor's rec. They use to get after shave and strain it through a loaf of French Bread. Wala ! Happy Hour mates. IAD

[aurora borialis]

Injesting hand sanitizer

There are many toxic ingredients in hand sanitizer besides alcohol and if anyone ingests it they should seek medical attention as soon as possible. I worked in ER and have seen people convulse and worse from these kinds of things. This is not a drink and has not been manufactured as a drink. My very STRONG push is get ye to a doctor!!!!