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CDC warns against drinking hand sanitizer after poisoning deaths |
2020-08-06 |
[New York Post] Health officials are warning against drinking hand sanitizer — after four poisoning deaths were reported in the American southwest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday issued an advisory against ingesting any type of sanitizer — and echoed FDA guidance to entirely avoid products that contain methanol, a wood alcohol substance that can be toxic when ingested or absorbed through the skin. Over the course of May and June, the CDC reported 15 cases of methanol poisoning in Arizona and New Mexico when people swallowed alcohol-based hand sanitizers. clustered on Indian Rez's IIRC? Four of those patients died, while three were discharged with visual impairments, according to the CDC. "Alcohol-based hand sanitizer products should never be ingested," the CDC wrote in the advisory. "In patients with compatible signs and symptoms or after having swallowed hand sanitizer, prompt evaluation for methanol poisoning is required." The FDA has listed more than 100 dangerous hand sanitizers that contain methanol. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#10 Making bad hooch takes effort. I'd wager hand sanitizer. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-08-06 16:53 |
#9 Did they drink hand sanitizer or a bad batch of hootch? |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-08-06 15:49 |
#8 Not bad, kind of like pudding. Four stars. |
Posted by: Kitty Dukakis 2020-08-06 15:32 |
#7 Maybe relabeled it as BLMonade? |
Posted by: gorb 2020-08-06 15:30 |
#6 Who the f*ck would drink hand sanitizer - it's 25% glycerin? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-08-06 15:05 |
#5 Just what we need, more (bigger) warning labels. |
Posted by: Clem 2020-08-06 13:36 |
#4 Today's Darwin award |
Posted by: warthogswife 2020-08-06 13:35 |
#3 Next will be the ban on methanol Well, there goes my small camp stove. |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-08-06 10:44 |
#2 Too bad we can't just ban stupidity, #1 Skid. >:-( |
Posted by: Barbara 2020-08-06 10:15 |
#1 Next will be the ban on methanol. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-08-06 09:21 |