I received notice about this via e-mail.
Hand sanitizer gels and wipes include a surprising amount of alcohol (e.g., Purell and Germ-X contain 62% Ethyl Alcohol), and a child who swallowed enough of such products could experience what 2-year-old Sydney and 4-year-old Halle went through: intoxication, possibly even alcohol poisoning. “Ingesting as little as an ounce or two of this product could be fatal to a toddler,” says Heidi Kuhl, a health educator at the Central New York Poison Control Center.
The snopes.com page dealing with this issue provides enough detail to convince me (as a parent) that toddlers and young children should use hand sanitizers only under close adult supervision.
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