Dangers in Your Kitchen Cabinet
I was reading a medical publication today, and found this information interesting. It’s certainly something I didn’t know when my children were very young.
Vanilla Extract – I often heard that a person could get drunk by drinking vanilla extract. I’ve wondered if that’s true. The answer seems to be “yes”. For children, that’s a real [...]
Keeping Your Child Safe – Resources
Injury Prevention
Lead Poisoning Information from the Center for Disease Control – An all encompassing website on lead poisoning in children. Covers all topics from prevention to advocacy to making your sure your home is safe.
Home and Recreational Safety Information from the Center for Disease Control – Information and Fact Sheets on a variety of dangers [...]
Children are at high risk for poisoning from medications
There are two primary ways children can be poisoned from medications:
1. Your own medicine cabinet.
2. Prescription and administration errors by health care providers.
You can do something about #1. A recent article in the New York Times reports on the high incidence of accidental poisoning among children from prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The article cites staggering [...]