Teens Drinking Hand Sanitizer

[3113]

Or, rather, the alcohol distilled from Hand Sanitizer. From here:

...California doctors are warning parents of what may be a fast-growing dangerous trend after six local teenagers were hospitalized in separate incidents with alcohol poisoning from drinking the soapy stuff.

The Los Angeles Times reported some of the teenagers used salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer using instructions found online. If a liquid hand sanitizer contains 62 percent ethyl alcohol, that means a "drink" can be as high as 120 proof, whereas a shot of hard liquor such as whiskey or vodka is typically 80 proof.

"All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager," Dr. Cyrus Rangan, director of the toxicology...for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times.

See what comes of teaching kids science?

 

[PennLady]

There used to be a feature on Slate.com about false media trends, and I wonder if this would qualify. I mean, I'm not doubting that the kids did this and had to be hospitalized, but this graph:

Rangan said although there have been only a handful of cases, the practice could become a nationwide problem since hand sanitizers are cheap and easily available, and teens can easily look up how to extract alcohol from a bottle. KTLA in Los Angeles reports there were no such cases last year, and the recent spate of cases in recent weeks is surprising.

Hand sanitizers have been available for how long? And I bet knowing how to extract the alcohol has been around almost as long. So why should it suddenly become a nationwide problem?

I'll be curious, though, to see if this does get to be a bigger problem.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Or, rather, the alcohol distilled from Hand Sanitizer. From here:

See what comes of teaching kids science?

It's actually not half bad if you use Scrubbing Bubbles Bathroom Cleaner as a mixer. Just say'in.

 

[lance gt]

I don't get it? Why go to all that trouble, when they can just crack open a bottle of rubbing alcohol and it's the same thing?

 

[Weird Harold]

I don't get it? Why go to all that trouble, when they can just crack open a bottle of rubbing alcohol and it's the same thing?

The content is the same, but the labeling is different.

Ingredients: (Purel brand)
Active Ingredients: Contains: Ethyl Alcohol (62%)

Inactive Ingredients: Water, Glycerin, Isopropyl Myristate, Propylene Glycol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Aminomethyl Propanol, Carbomer, Fragrance (parfum)

Rubbing alcohol is labeled as "Isopropol Alcohol" and the only "inactive ingredient" is water.

Any grade-schooler knows that Isopropol alcohol is poisonous, some even know that it deliberately made poisonous by the addition of "isoproponol." Hand sanitizers just list the ethyl-alcohol (aka 'booze') component of isopropol alcohol and list the "isoproponol" components as "inactive" so it isn't obvious that it, too, is poisonous.

 

[Safe_Bet]

The content is the same, but the labeling is different.



Rubbing alcohol is labeled as "Isopropol Alcohol" and the only "inactive ingredient" is water.

Any grade-schooler knows that Isopropol alcohol is poisonous, some even know that it deliberately made poisonous by the addition of "isoproponol." Hand sanitizers just list the ethyl-alcohol (aka 'booze') component of isopropol alcohol and list the "isoproponol" components as "inactive" so it isn't obvious that it, too, is poisonous.

Whaaa...????

It's been a few years since chem101, but that's not even CLOSE to what I remember.

 

[lance gt]

They should know to take methyl-alcohol, made during fermentation and boosted in distillation. Still lethal, but not as quick, lol

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Evolution in action, thinning the low I.Q.'s from the population.

 

[JackLuis]

Evolution in action, thinning the low I.Q.'s from the population.

There is a Darwinist in every cave.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yup. My family learned to speak English and move to the suburbs. It was definitely a evolutionarily provident choice. Did I ever tell you how Grandpa got that job with the Forest Service?

 

[Kurokami]

I gotta say... As much as I get nervous thinking about having to guide my children through their teenage years, I'm actually super-interested to discover what crazy new shit the teens of their generation will be trying to get high. One would think we're running pretty low on ordinary household stuff they could distill, by now

 

[lance gt]

I gotta say... As much as I get nervous thinking about having to guide my children through their teenage years, I'm actually super-interested to discover what crazy new shit the teens of their generation will be trying to get high. One would think we're running pretty low on ordinary household stuff they could distill, by now

Wait till they discover the wonders of Febreeze.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Wait till they discover the wonders of Febreeze.

You can get high on that?

I've just been using it to spritz my bedsheets when I'm too tired to do laundry.

 

[JackLuis]

Dr. Ablow advocates medical use of psychedelics

There is a purpose for everything.

But the cheap bastards are keeping the good stuff for last!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

There is a purpose for everything.

But the cheap bastards are keeping the good stuff for last!

Makes you long for Sigmund Freud, who prescribed cocaine liberally to both himself and his patients.

 

[mynameisben]

I know! It's crazy, huh? If my kid ever told me he was even thinking about drinking hand sanitizer I'd wash his mouth out with soap.

 

[Handley_Page]

Did I ever tell you how Grandpa got that job with the Forest Service?

Did Mr Beasley really permit that ?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, someone in Washington thought they needed a spokesmammal to help with the forest fire prevention program. He applied and the rest is history.

 

[Handley_Page]

Well, someone in Washington thought they needed a spokesmammal to help with the forest fire prevention program. He applied and the rest is history.

Pity he didn't have a relative or something round here on the edge of our local Royal Hunting Forest. There are times when I wish the perpetrators of these problems should be seriously injured in the resulting conflagration.

But on the good side, it's far too wet at present !

 

[lance gt]

Too bad the kids aren't gardening savvy. If they knew Heavenly Blue Morning Glory seeds made an extremely potent hallucenegen called Lysergic Acid Amide, they'd give up soap and start growing. Nice thing is, it's not even listed on the tables in any class or scheduling, so it's completely legal.

Word of warning, it will fuck you up seriously for most of a day, with just a tiny drop of the extract. "Alice, take my hand and introduce me to your friends..."

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Too bad the kids aren't gardening savvy. If they knew Heavenly Blue Morning Glory seeds made an extremely potent hallucenegen called Lysergic Acid Amide, they'd give up soap and start growing. Nice thing is, it's not even listed on the tables in any class or scheduling, so it's completely legal.

Word of warning, it will fuck you up seriously for most of a day, with just a tiny drop of the extract. "Alice, take my hand and introduce me to your friends..."

I learned about that in ancient peoples.

One thing you need to remember... The tribes of the North American southwest (modern day Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, etc) Used this as a potent hallucinogenic. You boiled exactly ten seeds in a certain amount of water. However, you need to have an intimate knowledge of the plant. What soil it was grown in, how old it was, how much water, etc. If you get it wrong, it either wont get you high, or you will die a horrible horrible death choking on your own vomit as you convulse.

Good luck

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yanno, my opinion is that if the kids were getting more good sex, they wouldn't find it necessary to play around with chemicals. Want to reduce drug abuse, decriminalize teenage sex.

 

[Neonurotic]

Great. The price of hand sanitizer is going to go up now. I have an OCD for sterile hands and it's going to cost me a fortune to keep sane.
















half joking here, of course.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well, someone in Washington thought they needed a spokesmammal to help with the forest fire prevention program. He applied and the rest is history.

I always noticed the family resemblance. But I was being cool and hip and never mentioned it.