疾病控制和预防中心说，人们在饮用洗手液后会死亡

疾病控制和预防中心说，人们在饮用洗手液后会死亡

Hand sanitizer is everywhere and is useful for cleaning the hands during the coronavirus pandemic. But it's not safe to swallow, the CDC cautions. "Alcohol-based hand sanitizer products should never be ingested," the CDC said in a new report.

洗手液无处不在，在冠状病毒大流行期间洗手非常有用。但是CDC警告说，吞下它并不安全。美国疾病控制和预防中心在一份新报告中说:“酒精类洗手液产品永远不应该被摄入。”

A CDC team described the cases of 15 adults in Arizona and New Mexico hospitalized for methanol poisoning after consuming alcohol-based hand sanitizers between May and June.

疾控中心的一个小组称在5月至6月间，亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州有15名成年人因饮用含酒精的洗手液而甲醇中毒住院的案例。

People are getting sick and even dying after swallowing hand sanitizer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Four died and others have suffered impaired vision or seizures, the CDC says.

美国疾病控制和预防中心周三表示，人们在吞咽洗手液后会生病，甚至死亡。CDC说，其中4人死亡，其他人视力受损或癫痫发作。

The CDC is not sure why people might drink hand sanitizer. Children might do it by mistake, and some people may think it's a good substitute for alcoholic drinks. It is not.

CDC不确定人们为什么会喝洗手液。孩子们可能会犯错误，有些人可能会认为它是酒精饮料的好替代品。它不是。

The US Food and Drug Administration has been repeatedly warning about methanol in some hand sanitizers distributed in the United States. Unlike ethanol -- the alcohol usually used to make hand sanitizer -- methanol is toxic and can even poison people through their skin. The FDA has warned against more than 100 hand sanitizer products.

美国食品和药物管理局一再警告在美国销售的一些洗手液中含有甲醇。与通常用于制造洗手液的乙醇不同，甲醇是有毒的，甚至可以通过皮肤毒害人。FDA已经对超过100种洗手液产品发出了警告。

Six seizures, four deaths

6人癫痫发作4人死亡

In late June, CDC received notification from public health officials and partners in Arizona and New Mexico about methanol poisoning linked with the ingestion of hand sanitizers.

6月下旬，CDC收到了来自亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州公共卫生官员和合作伙伴的通知，称摄入洗手液导致甲醇中毒。

CDC researchers and their partners in Arizona and New Mexico reviewed 62 call records to poison centers from May through June to characterize cases that could be methanol poisoning from alcohol-based hand sanitizer. The researchers also obtained medical records for additional details. But the report does not provide information as to why people were ingesting hand sanitizer.

疾病控制和预防中心的研究人员和他们在亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州的合作伙伴回顾了从5月到6月的62个中毒中心的电话记录，以确定可能是由酒精洗手液引起的甲醇中毒的病例。研究人员还获得了其他详细的医疗记录。但是该报告并没有提供人们摄入洗手液的原因。

The researchers found 15 people, ages 21 to 65, were admitted to a hospital after ingesting alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

研究人员发现，年龄在21岁到65岁之间的15人因饮用含酒精的洗手液而被送进了医院。

Six developed seizures while in the hospital and three were discharged with new visual impairments, the researchers found.

研究人员发现，其中6人在住院期间出现癫痫，3人在出院时出现新的视力障碍。

One patient, a 44-year-old man, said that he drank hand sanitizer in the few days before seeking medical care, according to the CDC paper. The man was hospitalized for six days for acute methanol poisoning and when he was discharged, he went home with almost complete vision loss.

根据CDC的报告，其中一名44岁的男性患者说，他在就医前几天喝了洗手液。该男子因急性甲醇中毒住院6天，出院后回家时几乎完全失明。

Four of the adults in the CDC report died.

CDC报告中有四名成年人死亡。

"This investigation highlights the serious adverse health events, including death, that can occur after ingesting alcohol-based hand sanitizer products containing methanol," the researchers wrote in the new CDC report.

研究人员在CDC的新报告中写道:“这项调查凸显了摄入含有甲醇的含酒精的洗手液产品后可能发生的严重不良健康事件，包括死亡。”

'We remain extremely concerned'

‘我们仍然非常担心’

In July, the FDA continued to warn consumers and health care workers not to use hand sanitizers containing methanol or wood alcohol, another type of substance often used to create fuel and antifreeze that can be toxic.

今年7月，FDA继续警告消费者和医护人员不要使用含有甲醇或木酒精的洗手液，这是另一种常用于制造燃料和防冻剂的有毒物质。

The agency also placed such products on an "import alert" in an effort to prevent them from entering the United States.

该机构还将这类产品列入“进口警告”，以防止它们进入美国。