Hand hygiene is an important way to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and, when soap and water isn't available, alcohol-based hand sanitizer is the next best way to do this. Dispensers of hand sanitizer ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hand sanitizer sales took off, but with the increase in use also came an increase in eye injuries. Researchers in France discovered that children have been getting the ...

Forwarded e-mails warn parents of the danger: Your child could become intoxicated - and seriously ill - from licking hand sanitizer off their skin. Hand sanitizers usually contain at least 60 percent ...

ATLANTA — Many people keep hand sanitizer around our homes, in a purse or car, within a child's reach. But since the start of the pandemic, the National Poison Data System has been getting more ...

Editor's note: This originally appeared on the UNC Health Talk blog. Hand sanitizer seems to be everywhere right now as families try to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, this has led to a rise ...

There have been nearly 71,000 reports to poison control centers of children ages 12 and under ingesting sanitizer between 2011 and 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Many ...

The National Poison Data System recorded more than 70,000 cases of children ingesting hand sanitizer from 2011 to 2014, according to a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC. For ...

(WASHINGTON) — As the novel coronavirus epidemic continues, horrific stories have been reported of children becoming sick from drinking hand sanitizers. This week, the Food and Drug Administration ...

Almost everywhere you go these days, from shops to restaurants to schools and doctors’ offices, there is a dispenser of hand sanitizer standing sentry, a reminder that clean hands play an essential ...