The California Poison Control System provides immediate, free, and expert treatment advice and referral over the telephone in case of exposure to poisonous or toxic substances. Pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and poison information providers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. With more information about poison safety tips, here’s Hilary Sloane…
Here are some tips on ways to keep children safe from poison. Place the California Poison action line phone number—800-222-1222—on or near all phones. Ask for child-resistant containers. Do not store food products and household cleaners in the same cabinet. Keep harmful medicines and household products out of reach and in locked cabinets. Never call medicine candy. Know your plants. Check the poison control web site at calpoison.org, or call your local plant store or nursery. And always keep potentially harmful products; such as cosmetics, perfume, cigarettes, alcohol, vitamins with iron, and all medicine; completely out of reach.
