COVID-19 and frequent use of hand sanitizers; human health and environmental hazards by exposure pathways
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2020Autor
Mahmood, Adeel
Eqan, Maryam
Pervez, Saher
Ahmed Alghamdi, Huda
Bari Tabinda, Amtul
Yasar, Abdullah
Brindhadevi, Kathirvel
Pugazhendhi, Arivalagan
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Till date no medication or vaccine is available to cope with the COVID-19 infection and infection rate is increasing
drastically across the globe. Only preventive measures and healthy life style with efficient immune system have
been suggested by WHO to fight and stay safe from COVID-19. WHO recommended alcohol based hand sanitizers
for frequent hand hygiene, which are mainly made up from ethanol, isopropyl alcohols, hydrogen peroxides in
different combinations. These preparations may become toxic to human health and environment when misused.
These chemicals have known toxic and hazardous impact on environment when released by evaporation. In early
five months of 2020, American Association of Poison Control Center reported 9504 alcoholic hand sanitizer exposure cases in children under the age of 12 years and recognized that even a small amount of alcohol can cause
alcohol poisoning in children that is responsible for confusion, vomiting and drowsiness, and in severe cases, respiratory arrest and death. Furthermore, frequent usage of said hand sanitizers has reported increased chance of
antimicrobial resistance and chance of other viral diseases. Current review is designed with main objective to
highlight the toxic and serious health risks to human health and environment by frequent using hand hygiene
products with alcohols based formulations.
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Hand sanitizers; COVID-19: Human health hazards: Environmental impact of hand rubsEnlace al recurso
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140561Colecciones
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