What is the world coming to? (Hospital hand gels 'being drunk' )

[Gollom]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7920576.stm

A hospital in Dorset is one of many removing alcohol-based hand cleaning gel from reception areas in a bid to stop visitors drinking it.

Shakes head.........

 

[daveuj]

don't know how as put some on my hands once then put my finger in my mouth never again.

 

[seenthelight]

Don't knock it till you've tried it....... hiccup hiccup

 

[gaz_l]

don't know how as put some on my hands once then put my finger in my mouth never again.

Sounds like you need a mixer with that then..

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[CE230]

Let them drink it and try and gain a place in the Darwin awards.

 

[MrT]

It's actually quite common for people to be ingesting it (on purpose). When I used to work in an inner city hospital, we used to always have homeless/alcoholics/heroin addicts admitted to wards for trivial problems, the hardcore alcoholics would love a bit of the alcohol gel. Even had a pair of addicts shooting up heroin in the middle of a ward once too...

 

[coupe deville]

don't know how as put some on my hands once then put my finger in my mouth never again.

the trick is to gulp it down quickly, just the job when you're sitting in casualty waiting room at 4 in the morning having come second in a drunken brawl and the lagers wearing off and the pain is setting in

 

[ibrar]

take a shot to the eye?

 

[Thmsshaun]

What the.................. Shaking my head.

What is the alocohol content of these gels?

 

[verytalldave]

My son is a security guard in several local hospitals and its a common problem. The latest container holders are lockable and theft resistant to try to stop this trend.
The alcohol (usually something like ethanol) content can be as high as 95% in some cases. Usually in the region of 60% - which is still high bearing in mind full strength Scotch Whisky is only 40%.
Its a dangerous thing to do and rots the liver very quickly and doesnt do the kidneys much good either.
The people that do these things are generally already on the slippery slope and its usually just a matter of time. Sounds callous, but its a fact.

 

[Nik_Endeavour]

I don't think the problem is the percentage of Alcohool in there but the type of it. Nobody mentioned that medicinal alcohool is actually Methyl Alcohool rather than Ethyl. The chemical formula is different and technically it is poisonous to living tissue (hence its use as a disinfectant). My vote goes to let em drink and award them a Darwin Award, maybe a bleach container can become available as well is case they fancy a cocktail.

 

[Baron_Samedi]

For god sake, ain't anti-freeze good enough for 'em?

 

[Spinal]

For god sake, ain't anti-freeze good enough for 'em?

Good quality anti-freeze doesn't contain alchohol It's only the cheap stuff that uses it

 

[djflip]

this is sad!
Bournemouth is a local hospital to me and there will be chances ill go there.
there currently suffering from ward bugs and some have closed because of this....now i know why!