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.

迄今为止，尚无药物或疫苗可以应对 COVID-19 感染，并且全球感染率正在急剧上升。世卫组织建议，只有采取预防措施和健康的生活方式以及有效的免疫系统，才能对抗 COVID-19 并保持安全。世界卫生组织推荐使用酒精类洗手液进行频繁的手部卫生，其主要由乙醇、异丙醇、过氧化氢不同组合而成。这些制剂如果使用不当可能会对人类健康和环境产生毒害。这些化学物质通过蒸发释放时会对环境产生已知的有毒和有害影响。 2020 年初 5 个月，美国中毒控制中心协会报告了 9504 例 12 岁以下儿童接触含酒精洗手液的病例，并认识到即使少量酒精也会导致儿童酒精中毒，导致精神错乱、呕吐和嗜睡，严重时会导致呼吸停止和死亡。此外，据报道，频繁使用所述洗手液会增加抗菌素耐药性和其他病毒性疾病的机会。当前审查的主要目的是强调频繁使用含酒精配方的手部卫生产品对人类健康和环境造成的有毒和严重健康风险。