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Hospitals may need to keep their hand rub under lock and key to stop patients drinking it for its alcoholic content, say doctors. Poison experts at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital received 19 reports of intentional ingestion over 16 months.
Accidental ingestion by children, and elderly and confused patients, was also a problem, they told the British Medical Journal.
Hand rubs are placed near bedsides to tackle hospital-acquired infections.
One of the reports related to a female patient with a known history of alcohol dependency who was found collapsed with an empty 500ml bottle of alcohol hand rub, lying next to another bottle. Tests showed she was nine times over the legal UK driving limit for alcohol and the concentration in her blood was potentially fatal.
:shock: i know i shouldnt, but this made me laugh, some people are seriously fuc.ked up :lol:
there might be no need, if you’ve been a good girl, santa might have a nice bottle of hand rub with your name on it :wink: :lol:
Brilliant typo sweets! :lol:
do they do baileys flavour for the christmas rush ? :lol:
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