Patient Gets Way Drunk on Hand Sanitizer in Aussie Rehab Hospital
- Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:36pm by
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SYDNEY (AP) — A man who drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer while being treated in an Australian hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the anti-bacterial gels to be better secured.
Doctors said in a letter published Sunday in the Medical Journal of Australia that they were stunned to discover the man had downed six 375-milliliter (12.7-ounce) bottles of hand sanitizer, giving him a blood-alcohol concentration more than five times higher than the legal limit for driving in Australia.
Dr. Michael Oldmeadow at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne city says the man is lucky to have survived.
Oldmeadow and three colleagues say in the letter that at least one U.S. hospital has introduced non-removable dispensers in all its wards.
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Casca
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:06amHmmmm…I must be missing something. Perhaps this is the best reply: So?
Report Post »Stupid people everyday do stupid things.
california_red
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:10pmWatch the politicians go after him for avoiding the alcohol tax.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 9:41amYeah, some of that stuff smells like tequila. I used it at work, (as a hand sanitizer of course), once and was challenged…I said no it‘s this hand sanitizer that I’m using…they told me not to use it anymore and find a product that didn’t smell like tequila.
Well darn, what about those hippies waring that marijuana smelling callogne?? LOL
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:34amAre we sure it wasn’t Mel Gibson?????? Alcohol the total destroyer of lives and families!
Report Post »VLADTEPES
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:42amWell, I guess it’s cheaper than beer..
Report Post »LovinUSA
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 4:53amWho cares, Austrailias problem.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:48amIn an unrelated story, study shows Australian toilets to be remarkably clean and germ-free. Hmmmm
Report Post »STAR SPANGLED SPAMMER
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:02amJust remember…Don’t Sanitize and drive!!!
Sanitize responsibly
(“trust nobody”)
Report Post »ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:04amNot worth commenting on? THINK AGAIN!
Congress is drunk on Anti-American spooky dude Soros money. This amounts to corruption!
Anything that involves activity from Congress to deny their ability to Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States is treason.
Congress, the White House, MSM, name the names out loud, help me out hear folks, anyone who accepts soroS’s money, Bill, Hillary, George Bush Jr. Sr., John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, et al. are all guilty of treason.
No one is held accountable because both parties are guilty. There is no one in Congress calling out this treason…Interesting?
Treason is treason. Punishable by death!
The earth is round, whether you believe it or not!
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:45amI’m with ya Alan! wth was this guy thinking!!!!!!!
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:38amI didn’t know that hand sanitizer was drinkable. But, I do know that normal use will make you test positive on a breathalyzer test.
Report Post »Lt_Taz
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:48pmSir, hand sanitizer is almost pure ethanol og grain alcohol
Report Post »The_Plumber_Says
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:07amI got 16 years. Never went the sanitizer route.
Report Post »Sounds like a messed up guy
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:19amI heard a story of a guy drinking Windshield Washing Fluid to catch a buzzzz
Report Post »and the dude went Blind
Ron_WA
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:00amIt is possible (it is sometimes 40% [80 proof]) but it not only has to taste like well, hand-sanitizer, but it’s got to not only give one a lousy buzz but a horrific hangover! I’ve dealt w/ alcoholics of this caliber & they will do anything … it is an absolute obsession …
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:58pmMust have reminded him of some of the home brew in the outback.
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:19pmMy wife is an alcoholic. She has been to one of the best rehab hospitals in the country….twice..they removed the hand sanitizer from the entire hospital for this very reason. There are none alcohol based ones available. Let me tell you, alcoholism is a terrible disease. It destroys everything it touches if the alcoholic cannot find sobriety. I’m dealing with this right now…looks like divorce number 3 on the horizon.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:32pm# 1 a divorce might be the best thing for her ( and you ) an alcoholic needs to hit bottom to recover or die. but I’m not trying to encourage you to get a divorce …ok
Report Post »#2.. you’ve had 3 wives … maybe you ought to look at your own problem, what ever it may be.
and again I’m not trying to intrude….sorry
#3.. yes Alcoholism is a terrible disease and there is no cure …. good luck sir
DD1966
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:58pmBeen sober myself for 23 years… there is hope
Report Post »civilunrestnow
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:08amYeah I will be the first to admit I apparently have questionable taste in women. First one left me for another woman. Second one was sleeping with her boss and now this. 3 and out for me baby…never ever again…
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 10:36pm“Been sober myself for 23 years… there is hope”
You gotta want it. 24 years for me.
Report Post »I Buy my cigars at a liquor store. Never been tempted… It’s not a life sentance.
thermonator
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:08pmYea, I saw this kind of behavior in the Navy. Guys would take dozens of bottles of mouth wash on our deployments because they had alcohol in them. We had to lock up our supplies of denatured alcohol and acetone in our shop because people would steal it to drink.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:50pmDuring the first Gulf War, while in Saudi Arabia, some of the guys heard that you can take rubbing achohol and strain it thru a piece of bread and drink it.That was a myth. I wonder how many of them got sick? They had their wives ship bottles of scope with vodka with food coloring added so it would look like mouth wash..
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 1:32amThat wont work at the airport!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:22amIt didn’t go thru an airport. It was shipped on military cargo planes.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:43amThats a way to hide the vodka from the kids, put it in a listerine bottle w/food coloring!
Report Post »not that I NEED TO ! just say’in ! They would’nt touch it !
You might of just ruined it for some of our finest !
BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:53amThere are books that describe all this too.I have two of the books. One is about the A-10 in the Gulf war (I was with an A-10 unit) and the other is the F-15E Strike Eagle in the Gulf.Both books written by the same author.Pilots would ship the stuff in crates marked as “Delicate Test Equipment.” This kind of stuff has gone on for ever.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:30pmI’m for it while on R & R LIKE IN Apocalypse Now !
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:03pmI wonder if they’ve discovered mixing glitter in the hand sanitizer yet?
Report Post »Don’t tell the dems about that one. They are still drunk on the Kool-aid.
Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:57pmhmmm
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:01pmYou’re all missing the point! This is just the kind of ‘in’ that O’Bummer needs to ban the sale of alcohol-based hand sanitizers in the U.S. — killing another million or so jobs in the process. Better hope der Fuhrer doesn’t read this article.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:51pmOh give me a break – that is the dumbest statement I have ever read!!!1
Report Post »ExDemNewLibertarian
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 3:11amdown with the FDA. Its just another portion of the government bureaucracy. This is the same agency that came u with the idea of putting large amounts of acetaminophen in narcotic prescription pain killers, thinking it would prevent drug over doses. guess what? thousands of people die every year from acetaminophen overdoes because people who abuse prescription drugs dont care that there are poisonous amounts of acetaminophen in these drugs….but on the financial side of things the FDA is a major reason why prescription drugs are so expensive in this country…regulations including an average of 7-10 years of mandatory drug trials are a major reason for this…
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:54pmLol- that is a serious addition. No amount of regulation is gonna stop a person like that.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:52pmKeep it in your Pouch for Joey! This elixir provides New Zeal-and Vigor!
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:50pmNeed a 13 step program!
13. No soap substitutes and no Cheez Whiz.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:03pmHarrumph! yes, slow night lol.
Report Post »Alan
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:42pmhuh? – sorry, all I got for this one
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 10:48pmSlow night.
I guess we are supposed to be outraged at the bad behavior of a total Alcoholic from across the world? WWSD?
(What Would Showtime Do?)
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:02pmWell said Alan.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 19, 2011 at 11:44pmit reminds me of the Saudis back in the 70′s & 80′s they used to drink cologne to get drunk .
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 12:27amWAY DRUNK ? i’VE been almost drunk, drunk, drunk ass hell, passed out, dont remember being way drunk, but thats also a sympton ! but sober10 mo’s this time! 1 day at a Time !
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 2:22amSo much for “CLEAN and sober” *enter groan here*
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 5:46amWhy dont we just open rehap hospitals for people who do stupid ****? When they show up, dont treat them but encourage them to keep it up until we rid our society of weak degenerates like this bozo…if someone has a drug overdose…we celebrate!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 6:09am.
Report Post »Wonder if he farted bubbles after???????
Meyvn
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:30amWhoa.
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 8:52amIt is not easy being an alcoholic in Australia. When I was living there, I came to realize they are far behind in the whole treatment direction of addicts/alcoholics. Considering the PM was caught on video doing beer bongs in a hotel probably tells the tale. To tell a quick story about how socialistic medicine causes people to not use their heads.
Report Post »While I was there, I Was researching if there was a market for 3/4 recovery houses in the country. There was certainly enough meetings, which reflected enough addict/alcoholics to support the homes. I talked to a few people about it, one who has done a great deal of service work, and she assured me, there is o way it was possible in their country. Their government NEVER gives money for those kind of places, she has tried to push for funding for a group home I guess. Anyways, I explained to her, a 3/4 house is self sustaining and requires no government funding. She was hearing it, as were the others. It was very discouraging to me. I couldn’t figure out why they seemed so opposed to the idea. What I didn’t understand then but do now is this. They can’t imagine ANYTHING happening unless the Government does it. They have become so dependent on the government that the idea to think outside the box is completely foreign to them. People do not understand just how your people lose their innovation and inhibitions when being dependent upon the government.
I will also tell you this, socialized medicine there reminds me of the
JRook
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:12amSadly a situation that could be avoided if groups like the CDC, FDA and analogous groups throughout the world moved beyond their bias in favor of alcohol sanitizers. There are better and safer alternatives like 4Hour Protection and MicroArmor, both of which are natural based products and equally if not more effective than alcohol based products. Another example of big company money using the government to create barriers to entry for companies with competing products that are superior.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 20, 2011 at 11:16amSadly a situation that could have been avoided. A situation created by the biased towards alcohol based sanitizers displayed by groups like the CDC, FDA and analogous agencies throughout the world. There are better alternatives like 4Hour Protection and MicroArmor, both of which are naturally derived and more effective than alcohol based products. Another situation where big company money influences government agencies to created barriers to entry for companies with superior products.
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