The following forwarded information is true.

We know how mischievious ferrets can be! A ferret allowed or enabled to
get into this hand cleaner would become very ill if not perish-- so all
you ferret folks who carry this in your pocket-- keep it away from your
critters!

ALicia D. www.ferretwise.org

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

See this womens story below

Ok. I don't know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life have
been such a blur. Yesterday, My youngest daughter Halle who is 4, was
rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargic
and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for
being "very VERY sick." He told me that when he arrived that Halle was
barely sitting in the chair. She couldn't hold her own head up and when
he looked into her eyes, she couldn't focus them.

He immediately called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to the
ER. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did
x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal,
not hing was out of the ordina ry. The ER doctor told us that he had done
everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint Francis for
further test.

Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to the
ER and after questioning Halle 's classmates, we found out that she had
licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all things. But
it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents and
when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things
in their mouths.

When we arrived at Saint Francis, we told the ER doctor there to check
her blood alcohol level, which, yes we did get weird looks from it but
they did it. The results were her blood alcohol level was 85% and this
was 6 hours after we first took her. There's no telling what it would
have been if we would have tested it at the first ER.

Since then, her school and a few sur roundi ng schools have taken this out
of the classrooms of all the lower grade classes but what's to stop
middle and high schoolers too? After doing research off the internet, we
have found out that it only takes 3 squirts of the stuff to be fatal in
a toddler. For her blood alcohol level to be so high was to compare
someone her size to drinking something 120 proof. So please PLEASE don't
disregard this because I don't ever want anyone to go thru what my
family and I have gone thru. Today was a little better but not much.
Please send this to everyone you know that has children or are having
children. It doesn't matter what age. I just want people to know the
dangers of this.

Thank you

[Moderator's note: Not something I'd normally include in the FML, but
true, ferrets may very well be attracted to sanitizers and it is the
type of product people may use around ferrets.  Though the story needs
some fact-checking -- there is no way blood alcohol level could be
85%!  (0.85, maybe!). BIG]

[Posted in FML 5618]