Christy Grant, 7-Year-Old Girl, Gets Alcohol Poisoning From Drinking Hand Sanitizer (VIDEO)

An angry father wonders why his 7-year-old girl was able to drink enough hand sanitizer to put her in the hospital with alcohol poisoning.

Christy Grant, a second grader at Neabsco Elementary School in Dale City, Va. was unconscious and unresponsive when she was rushed from school to the hospital, Grant's father told My Fox DC.

"She gave us a story. Somebody dared her. She did the dare,” Glen Grant said. “Under supervision, this would have never happened.”

A Neabsco Elementary official told My Fox DC that Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act laws prevent the school from commenting on the incident.

The young girl's dangerous ordeal is not the only example of hand-sanitizer-fueled alcohol sickness.

A chain email published in 2007 told the apparently mostly true story of a 4-year-old who got alcohol poisoning from licking her hands after applying hand sanitizer, according to The Seattle Times.

In Australia, health officials called for the soapy substance to be put under lockdown at stores after an alcoholic man gulped down enough to nearly kill him, the New York Daily News reported.

Comments

[James Lestat Buynar]

11:26 PM on 10/02/2011

stupid kid. she should know better. a teacher cannot watch all kids at all times.

[SrAN]

03:50 PM on 10/01/2011

Why is it when we hear stories like this the parent is always commenting on how there wasn't enough supervision or it was someone else's fault? What ever happened to teaching your kids common sense? If that had been me at that age I would have woke up to parents that would have been mad at ME for doing something so dumb.
Kids are not stupid. Kids are not ignorant. They know right from wrong and they can read warning labels. We need to stop treating our kids like little snowflakes and start teaching them the basics at home, ie common sense, self responsibility and discipline.

[Stephen Thorpe]

01:07 PM on 10/01/2011

Parents need to be teaching their kids to have a better sense of self and of right and wrong.
What is dangerous, what is not. Other kids are little devils. By the time kids start off to school,...moom and dad need to have already instilled in them the willpower to not do dares, because kids will dare each other to death and giggle over it.

[TheCycad]

11:58 AM on 10/01/2011

Kids shouldn't be exposed to dangerous chemicals like that. This crap is everywhere now, supermarkets, libraries, i've even seen them on street corners and in parks.

We're turning into a culture of neurotic germophobes.

how do you think our immune systems work? if you kill every germ then we'll have no natural immunity.

We're just priming ourselves for a pandemic, and in the process exposing children to this kind of hazard.

(although, I can't imagine what would prompt a kid to drink that stuff, anyway... but still, she's just a kid!)

[thechthonicblueberry]

11:15 AM on 10/01/2011

maybe the father of the child should have taught his daughter that drinking hand sanitizer, or any other chemical product, will make you ill/kill you. i'm fairly certain that even if dared to, a child wouldn't ingest a substance that they've been warned could kill them.
if they're going to start locking this up, they should lock up everything that could harm/kill you if eaten. (sarcasm)

[iteach4tomorrow]

07:50 AM on 10/01/2011

Better lock up the sanitizer when I get to school Monday. I can't help but wonder what comes next. Sometimes I feel like I am practicing defensive education.

[Jenn May]

02:43 AM on 10/01/2011

Parent's are mad about lack of supervision? Seriously? Have they ever stepped in a classroom?

They should be angry that they raised a child stupid enough to drink hand sanitizer...

[Lois Salem]

11:40 PM on 09/30/2011

ban the hand sanitizer now--- how pathetic

[kinnycut]

09:57 PM on 09/30/2011

If your kid can be conned ,even at seven, into drinking hand sanitizer, your child is just plain stupid.

[Phoobie]

08:27 PM on 09/30/2011

The kid knew that it was wrong to drink the hand sanitizer, which is why she said/explained that she did it because of a dare. People, especially kids, don't "dare" you to do something smart or safe or appropriate.

[cmr86]

07:38 PM on 09/30/2011

Darwin award worthy

[littlechanges]

01:24 PM on 10/01/2011

Entire family's lacking a few brain cells, apparently.

[John Stuart]

06:08 PM on 09/30/2011

Agreed. The warnings are there, if you ignore them you become a candidate for a darwin award.

[Ron C]

05:05 PM on 09/30/2011

At 7 years old that is one stupid kid.

[sonnype]

04:56 PM on 09/30/2011

What an idiot girl.

[RadicalAmerica]

04:50 PM on 09/30/2011

Natural selection.
The kid who drinks the most hand sanitizer or eats the most paste
doesn't grow up to make more kids.