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Keeping Children Safe when Visitors Arrive – A message from family doctors
Author – Glen R. Stream, M.D., MBI, FAAFP President, American Academy of Family Physicians With the holidays — and related family gatherings — quickly approaching, now is a perfect time to talk about keeping medications Up and Away and Out of Sight of children. The CDC, with support from the American Academy of Family Physicians Read More >
Posted on by 3 CommentsThree Words for Poison Prevention: Click, Up, and Away
CLICK! That’s the sound you often hear when you close the child-resistant cap on a medicine bottle. Imagine this scenario: It’s the middle of the night and your sick child needs a dose of fever reducing medicine. You’re only half awake and caring for your child. You give your child the medicine and head back Read More >
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Author: Robert J. Geller, M.D. Georgia Poison Center; American Association of Poison Control Centers It’s a moment of sheer panic. You find your child chewing something and holding an open bottle of medicine. You don’t know how much, if any, medicine your child swallowed, or if it will make your child sick. Unfortunately, as a Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentKeeping Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight of Toddlers
Author – Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH, CAPT, USPHS Director, Medication Safety Program CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Today, CDC announced the launch of an exciting new education program for protecting children from unintentional medication overdoses – Up and Away and Out of Sight. We’ve blogged about the large number of children who end up Read More >
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