GruntDoc with a Purell PSA last week. Now mainstream media is on the case:
“The widespread use of hand sanitizer is fraught with a great deal of danger,” said Suzanne Doyon, medical director of the Maryland Poison Center, who co-authored a letter in the journal about the case. “From an infection control perspective, they are excellent. But there is this risk involved.”Purell, which is 70 percent alcohol, is far more potent than beer (5 percent), wine (10 percent) or hard liquor (40 percent). Doyon said the nonalcohol ingredients in hand sanitizer don’t pose a health risk if ingested.
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Makes sense…I knew a drunk who used to drink Listerine. That of course was before he fell dead on the kitchen floor with a broken bottle of cooking sherry next to himm. His wife found him there in the morning when she went to make coffee.
Just a question about these sanitizers that are everywhere nowadays. Don’t they contribute to virus resistance and mutations leading to more dangerous forms of the virus? Similar to the misuse of antbiotics?
I guesss Purell has replace Sterno as the wino’s subsitute of choice.
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