Tips to prevent accidental poisoning of children
- Store all medicines — prescription and non-prescription — locked safely away from children.
- Use child-resistant packaging properly by closing securely after use.
- Never refer to medicines as “candy” when speaking to children.
- Ask guests to keep purses, bags, or coats that have medicines in them away and out of sight when they are in your home
- Keep cleaning supplies locked up and out of the reach of children.
- Keep all products in their original containers with the original labels.
- When products are in use, never let young children out of your sight, even if you must take the child or product along when answering the phone or doorbell.
- Lamps or candles containing lamp oil should never be left within reach of a child.
- Households with children should never use loose bait or loose pellet rodent control products.
- Households with children should never use soft drink bottles or cups to hold paint thinner, turpentine, gasoline, or other household chemicals. Children may be tempted to drink them.
Published March 23, 2012
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