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Medicine Safety for Families
Ask most parents, and they'll tell you they know to keep medicine where kids can't get into it. But every 8 minutes, or 64,000 times each year, a young child goes to the emergency department for medicine poisoning.
To understand what is happening in the home that is putting children at risk, Safe Kids conducted a research study, Keeping Families Safe Around Medicine. What we've learned may surprise you. Here is some important information that will help you keep kids safe around medicine.
More About Medicine Safety
Most parents and grandparents know to keep medicine up and away from children. But it's the exceptions ‒that one time when you leave your medicine in reach of a child ‒that leads to a call to the Poison Help Number, a call that happens every minute of every day. Here are some tips for protecting your child.
You may be surprised to learn that most visits to the emergency room by young children for medicine poisoning are due to kids getting into medicine belonging to a parent or grandparent. Do you have pills in purses or medicine on your nightstand? Here is a quick quiz to see how medicine-ready your home is for kids.