Poisons And Medicines For Babies

Poisons And Medicines For Babies

• Thousands of young children are poisoned each year in WA. Because they have small bodies they can be poisoned much more easily than adults.
• Use child proof containers for medications.
• We all know that cleaning materials and many garden products are poisonous, but often children are poisoned by things we use everyday such as:
  • perfume
  • cigarettes and alcohol
  • hair spray
  • cough and cold medicines
  • fly spray
  • cosmetics
  • ointments.
• Keep your child safe from everyday poisons by:
  • storing all medicines together in one place, locked up and out of reach (including things like paracetamol and contraceptive pills)
  • checking your bedside table and the bathroom to make sure 'everyday things' there can't poison your child
  • keeping cigarettes and alcohol out of reach - even the butts and dregs
  • checking your handbag and keeping your child away from visitors' handbags
  • being a good role model and telling your child some things are dangerous - show how to put them out of reach.

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Department for Community Devlp, Australia.

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