Après le rince-bouche, le désinfectant à mains

Je le savais, j'avais un pressentiment depuis mes années du secondaire, quand j'ai commencé à utiliser le désinfectant à mains, parce que j'étais une freak à temps partiel de la propreté. C'était écrit dans le ciel que ce liquide allait causer des problèmes chez les jeunes.

Dans le Maclean's de cette semaine, un article sur ces ados (et pré-ados) qui se saoulent au Purell.

«Most hand sanitizers have an alcoholic content between 60 and 90 %, which means that even small amounts have led to a number of cases of alcohol poisoning in younger children. That percentage is much higher than even that of most hard liquors, giving it an appeal to kids looking for a quick high, explains Jane Wells, a drama teacher at Toronto’s after-school Care Program. Wells has come to know a lot about this subject: she discovered that a group of eight- and nine-year-olds drank hand sanitizer at school just before she took them on a school walk. When she noticed them acting strange and giggling, they first told her they had been drinking alcohol, but after some probing, confessed it was really the hand cleaner. They told her they’d been enticed by the promise of alcohol “right on the bottle,” she says.»

The're Drinking What? édition du Maclean's du 2 novembre 2009