Child of 2020: Toddler mistakes street furniture for hand sanitizer

Child of 2020: Toddler repeatedly mistakes street furniture for hand sanitizer and keeps stopping to clean her hands in bittersweet footage One-year-old Landry from Dallas, Texas, stops to use ‘hand sanitizer’ on walks Her mother Katie Lightfoot captured the youngster pressing on random objects  Landry, a child of 2020, pushes dispenser-shaped items before rubbing hands By Milly … Read more

Woman severely burned by hand sanitizer exploding as she lit candle

Mom-of-three suffers horrific burns all over her body after hand sanitizer caught fire and exploded as she was trying to light a candle WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Katie Wise was lighting a candle last Sunday when she burned her hand, which she had sanitized earlier  Bottle of sanitizer made contact with the flame and exploded, engulfing … Read more

Woman suffers horrific burns after hand sanitizer exploded as she was trying to light a candle

Mom-of-three suffers horrific burns all over her body after hand sanitizer caught fire and exploded as she was trying to light a candle WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Katie Wise was lighting a candle last Sunday when she burned her hand, which she had sanitized earlier  Bottle of sanitizer made contact with the flame and exploded, engulfing … Read more

Vaping companies took advantage of pandemic offering frees roll of toilet paper or hand sanitizer

Vaping companies took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic by offering products that were in short supply, a new study suggests. Researchers found ads in which customers could get a free roll of toilet paper, face masks or a bottle of hand sanitizer with a purchase of e-cigarettes or vape liquids. Others companies urged the public … Read more

Drinking toxic hand sanitizer KILLED four people in Arizona and New Mexico and left 11 hospitalized

Eleven people were hospitalized in Arizona and New Mexico, and four died, after drinking toxic hand sanitizer, a new report reveals. The cleaning products contained methanol, a type of alcohol that can be poisonous if it is absorbed through the skin or ingested.  Health officials say exposure to methanol-based hand sanitizer can cause side effects … Read more

3 die in New Mexico from drinking hand sanitizer

Three people have died, three others are in critical condition and one person is permanently blind after apparently drinking hand sanitizer that contained methanol, New Mexico health officials said Friday. The state Department of Health said the cases were reported to the New Mexico Poison Control Center, with the first coming in on May 7. … Read more

FDA adds 1,500 hand sanitizer manufacturers to meet demand amid the pandemic

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added hundreds of hand sanitizer manufacturers to meet demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, but is warning they make the products less palatable in a bid to discourage people from drinking the liquid. More than 1,500 new makers of alcohol-based hand sanitizers have registered with the agency to … Read more