{"id":10367,"date":"2007-02-02T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/02\/but-at-least-it-wont-make-them-burst-into-flames.html"},"modified":"2007-02-02T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:39:11","slug":"but_at_least_it_wont_make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/but_at_least_it_wont_make.html","title":{"rendered":"But at least it won’t make them burst into flames!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my post<\/a> earlier this week about the “hoax” safety tip regarding hand sanitizer — that it can combust and cause horrible burns — I found this alternative warning about the stuff<\/a> … amusing.<\/p>\n

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Prison officials and poison control centers can add a new substance to their list of intoxicants – hand sanitizer. <\/p>\n

A usually calm 49-year-old prisoner prompted a call to the Maryland Poison Control Center after guards found him red-eyed, combative and “lecturing everyone about life.” Other inmates and staff reported the unidentified prisoner had been drinking from a gallon container of hand sanitizer, which is more than 70 percent alcohol, or over 140 proof, the center’s director wrote in an article appearing in the February issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n

That call was one of about a half dozen the Maryland Poison Control Center has received involving hand sanitizers, said Dr. Suzanne Doyon, the poison center’s director and co-author of the article. Doyon wrote the article along with Dr. Christopher Welsh, assistant professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, to raise awareness of the potential for abuse of hand sanitizers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Makes “getting clean” have a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my post earlier this week about the “hoax” safety tip regarding hand sanitizer — that it can combust and cause horrible burns — I found this alternative warning about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27573,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/cleanliness-is-next-to-drunkenness.html","url_meta":{"origin":10367,"position":0},"title":"Cleanliness is next to drunkenness","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Apr-12 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To be sure, some teens (and desperate adults) have been willing to drink just about anything if they think it will give them a buzz, throughout history. 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