Teens Drinking Hand Sanitizer

Teens to hospital drunk doctors warn.

Teens drinking hand sanitizer. Click here to get the facts about this dangerous trend. A typical 240 ml container of hand sanitizer gel contains about the same amount of alcohol as five shots of hard liquor. Six teenagers have shown up in two san fernando valley emergency rooms in the last few months with alcohol poisoning after drinking hand sanitizer worrying public health officials who say the. Some teens use salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer making a strong concoction that is similar to a shot of hard liquor.

Yes hand sanitizer the over the counter cleanser and teens are using it to get high. It s hard to say when drinking hand sanitizer came into vogue but reports of its use as an intoxicant with prison inmates started surfacing around 2007. According to the los angeles times six teenagers have been taken to the emergency room in the last few months after drinking hand. There s been a nearly 400 increase in poison control calls related to children ingesting hand sanitizer in the last five years.

By ryan jaslow april 25 2012 5 24 pm cbs news. In the latest quest by young adults to get high from common household products six teens are reported to have been treated in southern california emergency rooms over the past few months after drinking hand sanitizer. Teens are drinking hand sanitizer for a quick cheap potent and sometimes deadly high. Drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk.

So kids are drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk. There s a new teen trend. Most of the more than 65 000 young people drinking hand sanitizer are under 5 years old but according to reports to the national poison data system young people ages 6 to 12 are most likely to.