GEL SANITIZANTE DE MANOS

Este mensaje es una historia de una nina de 4 anos, quien injerio gel sanitizante de manos y llego a ser incoherente, no pudo hablar.   Ningun nino se murio.   Despues de leer estos estudios y cuentos, busco algo mas al tiempo, no he encontrado nada.  Sigo buscando.  

Un estudio que midio el nivel de alcol despues de usar gel sanitizante de manos

Un estudio de la Universidad de Florida encontro que el uso frecuente de sanitizante puede resultar en una prueba positiva de alcol, componentes hasta cinco dias.  

Otros tipos de pruebas no son positivas despues de dos horas.

Example:
Email text contributed by John V., May 14, 2007:

Hand Sanitizer alcohol poisoning

Ok. I don't know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life have been such a blur. Yesterday, My youngest daughter Halle who is 4, was rushed to the emergancy room by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for being "very VERY sick." He told me that when he arrived that 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.

He immediately called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to the ER. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint Francis for further test.

Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to the ER and after questioning Halle's classmates, we found out that she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of differents scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things in their mouths.

When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to check her blood alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from it but they did it. The results were her blood alcohol level was 85% and this was 6 hours after we first took her. Theres no telling what it would have been if we would have tested 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 whats to stop middle and high schoolers too? After doing research off the internet, we have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff to be fatal in a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high was to compare someone her size to drinking something 120 proof. So please PLEASE don't disregard this because I don't ever want anyone to go thru what my family and I have gone thru. Today was a little better but not much. Please send this to everyone you know that has children or are having children. It doesn't matter what age. I just want people to know the dangers of this.

Thank you
Lacey Butler and family

UF study finds hand sanitizers could lead to false positives in testing for alcohol

By Andrew Wyzan
Correspondent

Published: Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 4:34 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 4:34 p.m.

Germaphobes and barflies have not usually had much in common with each other, until a University of Florida study found that both may test positive for alcohol use.

The study by UF researchers found that the frequent use of hand sanitizers over a period of time can cause a person to test positive for alcohol consumption in some tests, despite the subjects having no history of alcohol use.

In a urine sample, alcohol breakdowns can be found up to five days after consumption, said Dr. Gary Reisfield, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry with the UF College of Medicine and co-author of the study.

Other more commonly used tests, such as a blood sample or a breathalyzer, can only detect the presence of alcohol up to a few hours after consumption.

For the average person who uses a hand sanitizer only a few times a day, the amount of alcohol absorbed through the skin would likely not show up on a urine test. But for those who have occupations that require frequent use of hand sanitizers, such as doctors and nurses, false positives on alcohol tests could occur.

Reisfield was inspired to conduct this study after coming in contact with people at the Shands Recovery Center who would test positive for alcohol consumption but claim otherwise.

The study examined 11 subjects as they used a hand-sanitizer every five minutes during a 10-hour period over the course of three days. None of the subjects had a history of alcohol use and had their urine tested at the beginning and end of each day.

A level of 500 nanograms per milliliter of urine or higher of a specific biomarker called ethyl glucuronide, EtG, is a strong indicator of alcohol consumption. The results of the study found that eight of the subjects produced amounts of EtG greater than 500 nanograms per milliliter, four produced greater than 1,000 nanograms per milliliter and one produced greater than 2,000 nanograms per milliliter.

“The first surprise of the study was that the EtG levels were as high as they were,” Reisfield said. “It tells us that even less exposure to alcohol can produce these kinds of levels.”

The study also yielded surprising results for another biomarker of alcohol consumption called ethyl sulfate, EtS. No subject in the study produced a measurable concentration of EtS in his or her system, which Reisfield concluded to be a more valuable measure than EtG, as it could differentiate between imbibing alcohol and extended use of hand sanitizers.

Reisfield intends to conduct a follow-up crossover experiment that would compare the breakdowns from hand-sanitizers with the actual consumption of alcohol.

He also further warned against other sources of alcohol in everyday life that could add up over time in a urine sample, such as mouthwashes, cosmetics and certain foods.

“For folks who do need to be required to abstain from alcohol and need to be tested for alcohol consumption, these people need to be cognizant of the hidden sources of alcohol in the environment.”