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07-30-2020 06:13 PM
ILLINOIS — Heads up, llinois residents: If you're like a lot of Americans worried about coronavirus exposure, high demand for and shortages of your favorite hand sanitizers may have sent you to brands you'd never heard of but which promised the same bacteria-killing agents. The Food and Drug Administration has recalled 75 brands that contain methanol, which can cause serious health complications.
The agency said anyone who used hand sanitizers containing methanol, which is also known as wood alcohol, should immediately seek medical treatment to reverse the toxic effects of methanol poisoning.
Substantial methanol exposure can result in "nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death," the FDA said on its website.
All people who used the product on their hands are at risk, the FDA said. But the agency cautioned that "young children who accidentally ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute are most at risk for methanol poisoning."
The 75 FDA-recalled hand sanitizers, on a list that has been frequently updated, are:
The market research company ReportLinker said sales of hand sanitizer products in the United States grew 73 percent in March, the first full month of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
U.S. sales of hand sanitizers totaled more than $2.7 billion in 2019, according to the market research company Grand View Research, which expects sales of such products to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 22.6 percent through 2027. The company said polls show 77 percent of Americans surveyed in April regularly used hand sanitizers.
07-30-2020 06:21 PM
Rarely use hand sanitizers. Prefer good old soap and water.
07-30-2020 07:03 PM
2 months ago could not believe how so many tumbled for this sanitizer panic. I have always carried a Clorox tube kind in car for when fingers got sticky handling grocery store chicken or other meat packaging. Other than that: soap and hot water.
07-30-2020 09:44 PM
I’ve always been cautious as to what I buy at little stores, just because. Last weekend I stopped at a little convenience store in a little town near me. When I went to the register to pay, they had all kinds of little displays selling things. One was a hand sanitizer and I had not heard of the brand. I was reading the label and it said, “Made in the PRC.” I ask the cashier if she knew what that meant and she didn’t. When I told her it meant the People’s Republic of China, she was shocked. I said people need to read labels. I would not buy anything like that, no way I would trust it. So sad that it’s hard to tell what they put in that stuff. 😖
07-31-2020 12:51 AM
I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer and/or handwipes in my car to use after shopping and wash my hands with soap and water as soon as I get home. This is nothing new to me. I've always kept a small bottle of sanitizer in my purse. My workplace and the nature of my job exposed me to a lot of people and places.
08-06-2020 05:27 PM
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