Are children really drinking alcohol-based sanitizers?
Posted: April 17th, 2010 - 9:27am by Doug Powell
It’s not just prisoners drinking alcohol-based hand sanitizers for a buzz.
The Irish National Poisons Information Centre (NPIC) received 54 enquiries about alcohol-based sanitizers in 2009 and 74 per cent related to children. In 2008, there were just 20 calls from concerned doctors who were treating patients who had ingested alcohol hand gel
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