A child safety specialist at the IWK is raising awareness about the possible harm of a hand sanitizer marketed to young children, which looks very similar to an apple sauce squeezable pack.
Child Safety Specialist Chantal Walsh from Child Safety Link says “I think parents will look at it … and think this is a great way to get my child to keep their hands clean, to use it frequently. I do think, though, that as a child, it would be very easy to confuse it with something that they can eat and ingest.”
There’s enough in the pack to cause some toxicity if it gets ingested by a child and there’s about 62 per cent of alcohol in the pack.
“I was thinking to myself, as a parent that it’s something that obviously I feel most parents probably have seen and would likely have purchased at this point.”
For that reason, Walsh says she recommends that parents refrain from using the pack and not to purchase something similar to the product in the future.
IWK’s child safety specialist warns against potential harm of hand sanitizer marketed to children
Stay safe!
-Ian
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