Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizer: Can Frequent Use Cause an Elevated Blood Alcohol Level?

Completed

Conditions studied: Healthy

In brief

Ethanol based hand sanitizers do not raise blood alcohol levels to a measurable amount. This study will determine to what extent, if any, heavy use of ABHS changes blood alcohol levels.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00297908

Run by

C.R.Darnall Army Medical Center

People needed

5

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2006-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-06-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults between the ages of 18 and 50 years without liver or renal disease working in the emergency department to include residents and staff physicians.

You may not qualify if…

• Alcohol intake or exposure in the past 12 hours to include ABHS.
• Allergy to ABHS or any of its ingredients.
• Any rash on the extremities.
• Currently taking disulfiram , metronidazole, chloramphenicol, nitrofurantoin, tolbutamide, chlorpropamide, glyburide, glipizide, tolazamide, griseofulvin, chloral hydrate, acetohexamide, and third-generation cephalosporins.
• Liver or kidney disease.

Where it is running

• Darnall Army Community Hospital — Fort Hood, Texas, United States

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