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'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer
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'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer
MSNBC
By Jane Weaver, msnbc.com

There's a new dangerous trend among teenagers -- trying to get drunk by guzzling hand sanitizer. Over the past month at least eight teens in Los Angeles county have landed in area emergency rooms with alcohol poisonings after drinking the cheap liquid, the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles reports.

It's unclear whether the teens knew each other, or had communicated, but at least some of them were distilling the hand sanitizer products, which typically contain at least 60 percent ethyl alcohol, using salt to separate the alcohol. The result is a powerful 120 proof shot, about 50 percent more potent than vodka or tequila, says Dr. Cyrus Rangan, medical toxicologist with the California Poison Control System.
"If a person has never had alcohol before, they can get drunk almost instantaneously," Dr. Calvin Lowe told NBC Los Angeles. "It's very, very dangerous."

Using hand sanitizer to get drunk is just the latest get-wasted fad, similar to young people downing mouthwash or cough syrup, also known as robo-tripping. In 2010 a Food and Drug Adminstration panel weighed whether to require a prescription to buy products containing dextromethorphan, the ingredient found in numerous over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. The FDA panel voted against the proposal.
"Teens have always been looking for things around the house to get high, so they don't have to go to a drug dealer," says Rangan.

According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, the substances most frequently involved in teen poisonings in 2010 (the most recent data available) were:

Ibuprofen -- 10,030 calls
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft) -- 8,419 calls
Acetaminophen (adult formula) -- 7,995 calls
Atypical Antipsychotics (Ablify, Risperdal) -- 7,319 calls
Benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax) -- 7,192
Alcohol -- 5,061 calls

Source: AAPCC

While there have been prior cases of people drinking hand sanitizer, the salt procedure is relatively new, Helen Arbogast, injury prevention coordinator-Trauma Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said in a statement. Although the emergency room cases appear limited to Los Angeles county for now, experts are concerned the trend could go viral as more teens discover how to distill the liquid sanitizer on websites or in YouTube videos.

Children's Hospital is recommending that concerned parents treat hand sanitizer like liquor or medications. Another alternative for parents is to switch to non-gel based foam sanitizers, suggests Rangan.
NBC News contributed to this report

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
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I guess I know what I'm doing tonight.  :crazy2:


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~Hermann Hesse, Demia

Edited by Sober (04/24/12 09:27 PM)

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Sober]
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Oh!  Get out the ban wagon.  Add hand sanitizer to the controlled substance act of 2011...


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: WorldWideWInton]
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Quote:
Ibuprofen -- 10,030 calls
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft) -- 8,419 calls
Acetaminophen (adult formula) -- 7,995 calls
Atypical Antipsychotics (Ablify, Risperdal) -- 7,319 calls
Benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax) -- 7,192
Alcohol -- 5,061 calls



Hand Sanitizer -- 96  Not bad out of 10,000,000 people ... 0.00096%
:feelsbannedman:


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
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I think "dangerous" is the wrong word here, more like "disgusting."
:awewtf:

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: nooneman]
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:facepalm:

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: yoimjohn] * 1
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I'll have my Purell shaken...not stirred.


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: the_drummer]
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I was just gonna post this, crazy fuckn kids.:lolsy:


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: the_drummer]
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the_drummer said:
I'll have my Purell shaken...not stirred.


Germ-X on the rocks salt please

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: thissongis]
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Old news

Kids in programs have been doings this for decades. Hell you can make your own grimy liquor with some sugar and a little yeast. Filter it with some cloth and your good to go. Kids need to use the internet *face palm*

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: OGTubs]
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at least they're distilling it, I thought they were just drinking the shit :lol:


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: NWlight]
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I heard this on the radio this morning.  fucking nasty.

The bottle I have next to my desk has moisturizer and shit in it.


I guess you could boil off the ethanol but how many kids are just drinkin g the shit straight?

I'm I gonna have to show ID to buy fucking hand sanitizer now,  or are they going to add some methanol to poison the little fuckers?

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Beefy1]
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haha fucking love these stories. Nature just doing its thing. Fuck it lets ban everything!


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: tizjack]
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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
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Helen09 said:
There's a new dangerous trend among teenagers -- trying to get drunk by guzzling hand sanitizer.


:pokerawe:

I don't think you know how forums work helen


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: NWlight]
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NWlight said:
Helen09 said:
There's a new dangerous trend among teenagers -- trying to get drunk by guzzling hand sanitizer.


:pokerawe:

I don't think you know how forums work helen


we all start somewhere man..


on a serious not i prefer to drink mu purell right after i put a few banana peels up my bum, it adds a nice buzz...


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: Invisible_Woe]
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I was wondering what the hell the new trend was for these damn kids.  Saw someone posting on fb: screw purple drank, i want some Hand sanitizer.  :themoreyouknow:


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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: runningfox2002] * 1
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Kids, learn to distill your own alcohol or learn how to make your own wine from grape juice or brew your own beer.  All the ingredients you can legally buy under age.  You have got to be pretty desperate to drink hand sanitizer thats filled with all sorts of mosturizers and other crap that would make it prety disgusting to drink.  And I thought myself getting drunk on Grand Marnier when I was a teen was pretty gross.

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: digitalemu]
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Guzzle guzzle y'all:chillin:

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Re: 'Dangerous' trend: Teens guzzling hand sanitizer [Re: digitalemu]
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Ferget drinking Purell, I wanna smoke it!

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