Parents should not clean child's hand with Hand Sanitizers

By NUR AMANINA BINTI SURANI

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UNITED STATES - Millions parents use hand sanitizers (gel hand cleaner) to ensure their child freely from germ. But study now giving warning will his danger the product. 

There are a few cases where children experience smarting eye,vomit and stomach pain after using hand sanitizers, according to a study carried out by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From year 2011 to 2014, United States of America received 70,000 poisoning help call where children under age of 12 years has accidentally eaten, smelted or eye entered by sanitizer hand, according to report that is issued yesterday. 

Of the number, five children in coma state, three child experience fits and two critical situation where breathing two children stopped temporarily. 

91% children who become victims is among children that are five-year-old below believed accidentally swallowed hand sanitizers unintentionally. 

However, to children aged 6 to 12 years, 15% of them not due to accident and believed may deliberately abuse hand sanitizers, said report quoted by Mirror. 

According from Ahmad Sazlan 40 , one of father said that is better in cleaning your small families hand with old way, namely with water and soap. So, use method as long as can be done.

Researcher also found that incidents about hand sanitizers in inner child the age group less happening in summer, may be because children have more access to the product during school year or during flu season. 

Even then, expert do not say parents should discontinue hand sanitizers usage, instead only need monitor his usage in respective children. 

Apart from hand sanitizers, expert recommend use public soap and water to wash hand because that is method proposed in sanitary care.