{"id":8190,"date":"2018-03-20T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8190"},"modified":"2018-03-20T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:22:38","slug":"childproof-your-medicine-cabinet-for-poison-prevention-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8190","title":{"rendered":"Childproof Your Medicine Cabinet for Poison Prevention Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8191\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8191\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"About 70 percent of parents and caregivers admit they\u2019ve stored medications where children might reach them. (Getty Images)\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1-405x273.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1-638x430.jpg 638w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/gr-61856-1-1-619x418.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 70 percent of parents and caregivers admit they\u2019ve stored medications where children might reach them. (Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Mark Richardson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>GALVESTON, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Every nine minutes in this country, a child under age six arrives at an emergency room because of accidental medication poisoning \u2013 and every 12 days, that accident is fatal.<\/p>\n<p>The six locations in the Texas Poison Center Network receive more than 175,000 calls for help each year. March 18-24 is Poison Prevention Week.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.safekids.org\/\" target=\"parent\">Safe Kids Worldwide<\/a>\u00a0tracks progress and educates people about safe medicine storage. Morag Mackay, the group\u2019s director of research, said parents and caregivers often think childproof containers are enough of a deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids are fast. When we talk to parents that come into emergency rooms, they say, \u2018I turned my back for like less than a minute, and when I turned around, she had the bottle in her hand and had it open,&#8217;\u201d Mackay said.<\/p>\n<p>She said their research found in about half of over-the-counter poisoning cases, the child climbed on a toy, a chair or other object to reach the medicine. And while most parents agree that it\u2019s important to store medicine out of reach after every use, she said seven in ten admit they\u2019ve stored pill bottles in places a child could get to them.<\/p>\n<p>Mackay said while medication-poisoning cases are on the rise, other common products around the house can also be dangerous \u2013 and sometimes, deadly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot just prescription medicine or over-the-counter medications like cough and cold medicines,\u201d she said; \u201cwe\u2019re talking things like vitamins and supplements, and even some things that you wouldn\u2019t think of as being toxic or poisonous to kids, like diaper cream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are six regional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/poisoncontrol.org\/home\/\" target=\"parent\">Poison Control Centers in Texas<\/a>, located at major medical centers in Galveston, Dallas, San Antonio, Temple, Amarillo and El Paso. If a child ingests something poisonous, the number for all locations in the Texas network is: 1-800-222-1222.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Richardson GALVESTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0Every nine minutes in this country, a child under age six arrives at an emergency room because of accidental medication poisoning \u2013 and every 12 days, that accident is fatal. The six locations in the Texas Poison Center Network receive more than 175,000 calls for help each year. 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