Safe Kids Baltimore
Poison Prevention
Safe Kids Baltimore promotes the work of the Maryland Poison
Center with efforts throughout the year. Together we offer you these poison
prevention tips:
- Keep potential poisons locked out of children’s site and reach.
- Educate your children, yourself, and other caretakers about possible poisons.
- Buy products and medicines in child resistant containers.
- Never create new cleaning solutions by mixing together products designed
for different uses.
- Never leave potentially poisonous household products unattended while in
use – it only takes seconds for a poisoning to occur.
- Never refer to medicine as candy. Many medicines do look like candies.
Referring to medicine as candy may encourage them to experiment.
- Always follow the directions when giving children medications.
- Throw away old medications by flushing them down the toilet.
- If you think a poisoning may have occurred, call the poison center at 1-800-222-1222
immediately. Take the product to the phone with you.
- If poison gets into a child’s eyes, flush with warm water for 15
minutes by pouring water onto the eyes. Do not allow the child to rub their
eyes.
- Rinse skin that has come in contact with poison for 15 minutes under cool
running water.
- Have your house tested for lead based paint if it was built before 1978.
Hire someone to remove lead paint if found. Consult your doctor for lead exposure
treatment.
- Install carbon monoxide detectors on every level of the house and in the
bedrooms. If the alarm sounds – leave immediately. Call the fire department
and utility department from a neighbors house or outside the house.
- Have all heaters, furnaces, fireplaces and wood burning stoves inspected
for safety and proper ventilation.
For Inquiries Contact the Maryland Poison Center at 1-800-222-1222 or www.mdpoison.com
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