MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) --- It's a concern for every parent. What can my child get into that could harm them?

Hand sanitizer could be deadly for little ones, but experts say it's the older kids you also need to monitor.

More and more teenagers are trying hand sanitizer to get drunk. Any kid can walk into a drug store and pick some up and no ID is needed. It's the amount of alcohol that's in the sanitizer that doctors say is concerning.

As the Medical Staff Director of St. Mary’s Hospital Emergency Department, Dr. Kyle Martin has seen his fair share of emergency patients.

"I, unfortunately, see tragedies every year in the ER of alcohol or alcohol related injuries and poisoning and death," Dr. Martin says.

Which is why he's warning parents about something so common that can be extremely dangerous, hand sanitizer.

"Kids, teenagers that are doing it to get drunk," he explains. "It's a source of alcohol that parents and everyone don't necessarily think to keep locked up and safe and account for, and so it's a very readily accessible form for that."

But it also has a lot more alcohol in it. Dr. Martin says sanitizer could be 40% to 95% alcohol, compared to a glass of wine which is about 12%.

"It's so much alcohol that it hits your system very quickly as opposed to, you know, if you were drinking throughout the course of an evening, your body has a chance to catch up and the effects of the alcohol you start to feel and then you back things off," he says.

Because of the high alcohol content, Dr. Martin says this needs to be another element added to "the talk".

"Talk to your kids to make sure they understand how deadly it can be," he says. "You know, every year we see alcohol poisoning from routine use and I think this is just one other avenue that parents and their kids need to be aware of as really a danger."

The Wisconsin Poison Center had 349 cases of hand sanitizer consumption in 2015, down from 372 the year before.

Representatives there say that hand sanitizer is so beneficial in keeping people healthy that they would not recommend banning it.