Safety is a priority for anyone who regularly takes care of young children. Whether it’s installing stair gates to prevent falls or using electrical socket covers to avoid shocks, every caregiver goes through the process of making their house safer for an adventurous child. One risk that might not be top-of-mind, however, is medicine safety.
Every minute of every day, a poison control center answers a call about a young child getting into medicine or getting too much medicine.1 In 2012, there were almost 64,000 emergency department visits that involved a child exposed to medicine.
Every one of these emergency department visits involved a scared child and a worried family, and could have been prevented. On top of that, an estimated $34.4 million is spent every year on medical costs for trips to the emergency department as a result of medicine exposures in young children, twice what the federal government spends annually on poison control centers
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