In addition to my post yesterday - as an afterthought, I felt the need to elaborate a little more on some of the lessons learned from our experience with Xavier last year.
- Please take an extra second to make sure to lock up your medicines - especially tylenol and prescription drugs.
- Make sure you give those child safety tops an EXTRA twist and check to make sure the lock is engaged.
- Place your medicine in a locked cabinet and go through your medicine to make sure there are not any expired meds.
- It only takes a moment for a child to get into something like cough medicine or pills.
- Keep the phone number for poison control handy (written on a note on the inside of a cabinet). 1-800-222-1222
- Use Mr. Yuck stickers - talk with your children about the danger of taking medicine themselves.
- One thing we learned is to avoid those multi-symptom medicines (ie. tylenol cough). Treat each symptom separately - that will avoid overdosing.
- If you suspect your child has ingested medicine - CALL 911 and bring the bottles with you to the hospital!
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