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Poisoning of children by drugs: where to store the medicine safely

08/04/2016

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US study shows that in the United States 59 000 children were taken to hospital for ingesting drugs by accident. Here's how to store medicines safely to protect your child

Source: Growing

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A survey released in late March by the NGO Safe Kids Worldwide, based in Washington, in the United States revealed that, every day, 160 children end up in emergency room visits throughout the country to have ingested drugs accidentally. In total, around the year 2014, period of this study, there were 59,000 cases of poisoning vitamins, analgesics or other drugs throughout the country.

In general, parents know that these substances are dangerous and try to keep them out of reach, but just a glance so that children take those pills that are in the mother's pouch, on desks, on the floor or in boxes carried by grandparents or other people in the house. Organizers of drugs were responsible for most records: 23% of the total.

Although the numbers are the United States, Brazil, this type of accident it is also common. "There are many grandparents who live with families and it is common that older people need to take medicine. When the boxes are within reach of children, even for a short time, there is a risk, "says Gabriela Guida de Freitas, coordinator of the NGO Child Safe.

To prevent such accidents from happening in your home, the ideal is to strengthen the care of the handling and storage of medicines. Check Gabriela tips.

- The basic tip is to keep the drugs in a high place and preferably locked. "If only high and can not be locked, careful not to keep on top of a shelf or near some furniture that children can climb," says the expert.

- If a family member is taking a medication that needs to be taken in the bag, or even for those who carry those emergency cartouches of analgesics, for example, you need to pay close attention to the place where this bag is left, to get home or even in the car. Remember to leave it out of reach of your children.

- When there are elderly at home, and guide them on the care of the place that leave the drugs, we must be careful to oblivion cases.

- When your child needs to take medicine, never say it's "sweetie" or that is "balinha" to persuade him to ingest the medication. Children can associate information and want to try the substances in schedules or wrong doses.

- If any other caregiver, such as a nanny, for example, is responsible for giving the medication to the child, strengthen guidance on the proper dosage and the need to keep the medicine in the right place then.

 

Source: Growing

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