OMG! AUSTRALIAN MAN ALMOST DIES OF ALCOHOL POISONING AFTER GUZZLING HAND SANITIZER!

An Australian man who was being treated for alcoholism got bombed after guzzling a load of hand sanitizer, sparking calls from health officials to keep the surprisingly highly alcoholic gels on lockdown.

Doctors called attention to the hazard of loose bottles lying around hospitals in a letter published Sunday in the Medical Journal of Australia.

The 45-year-old man's booze habit had inflamed his stomach, and he was undergoing treatment at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, the Associated Press reported.

On his third day in treatment, doctors said he was nodding off, and a nurse discovered six nearly empty 12.7 ounce bottles of hand sanitizer in his room.

"It surprised us that he drank this stuff," Dr. Michael Oldmeadow, an internist at the hospital, told the AP. "It's horrendous. You'd think it would taste pretty bad."

Oldmeadow said in the letter the man took a breath test and blew a .271, more than five times the legal driving limit in Australia.

The hand sanitizer has an ethanol content of 66%, and the tiny bottles are a must for hospital staffs to ward off infections.

But the letter said that hospitals needed to find a new way to store the gel, such as in dispensers that would be attached to a wall.

Oldmeadow said three other people had been busted getting blotto on hand sanitizer in the past six months.


I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD GET DRUNK OFF THAT SH!T! LOL!


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