Originally Posted by megajoltman
The chemical of concern in antifreeze is ethylene glycol. Hand sanitizers, which are either ethanol- or isopropanol-based, do not contain ethylene glycol. It is true that ethylene glycol is very dangerous to pets (and humans) if ingested, even in small quantities, but such a fact is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

Although ethanol poisoning (i.e what happens when a human drinks a medically dangerous amount of alcohol) is possible if a pet were to consume large quantities of hand sanitizer, an animal merely licking a recently sanitized hand is not cause for concern. For that reason, the claim is “False.”


^^Yepper.

But the ingredient used in many things edible including pet food, cake frosting, laxatives and tooth paste is Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) PEG makes liquids like some Liquors, Fireball whisky, thicker to the tongue. It is used as a filler (its cut with dry PEG) in many pharmaceutical drugs. Miralax laxative is PEG 3350


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