A Texas mother is sending a warning out there to those who use hand sanitizer, after she caught fire.
Kate Wise is currently suffering from severe facial and body wounds. The incident occurred on Sunday after she put her three daughters to bed and then applied hand sanitizer. She then went to light a candle in her home.
According to KHOU, the flame came in contact with the sanitizer on her hands and “consumed in flames” in a matter of seconds.
“It can be something as small as lighting a candle. Because of the hand sanitizer, it just lit my whole… everywhere I had hand sanitizer, it just lit my hand with fire,” she said of the horrifying incident.
Wise had second- and third-degree burns from head to toe covering 18% of her body. She was taken to the hospital.
“What appears to have happened is she used hand sanitizer and then went to light a candle — and hand sanitizer is flammable,” said Will Hampton of the Round Rock fire department . “This stuff is at least 62 percent alcohol, so folks need to be careful.”
