Some contaminated hand sanitizers can make you go blind, the FDA warns

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On July 2, FDA commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. had said in a statement: “Consumers and health care providers should not use methanol-containing hand sanitizers. The FDA remains committed to working with manufacturers, compounders, state boards of pharmacy and the public to increase the safe supply of alcohol-based hand sanitizers.”

According to numerous international health reports, you are likely to experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blindness, seizures, and even coma, if you are exposed to the toxic chemicals of hand sanitizers. It is said that ethanol is the only alcohol you can ingest without serious consequences. Which is why even the CDC recommends that you look for alcohol-based sanitizers that contain at least 60 percent ethanol.

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But, methanol is cheaper, which is perhaps the reason why some inexperienced chemists may be using it to make dangerous hand sanitizers, long exposures of which are clearly detrimental, the FDA warns, adding you must pay attention to how your body reacts to the substance.

The FDA also said that if any hand sanitizer says it is “FDA-approved”, it is a red flag, since no hand sanitizers are approved directly by FDA. Also, it is safer to stick to well-known and familiar brands.