Do you know where you’re supposed to store your household medications? You most likely understand that you ought to be keeping them up as well as away as well as unseen as well as reach of young children. Now ask yourself– is that what you’re actually doing?Safe Youngsters checked 2,000 moms and dads throughout the nation this winter season to better recognize their knowledge, mindsets and also habits when it involves the risk-free storage space of medication– and the answers were shocking. While 9 in 10 moms and dads agree it’s important to keep all medicine up high and also unreachable after every use, virtually 7 in 10 report that they aren’t in fact doing so.So why isn’t that knowledge constantly becoming action?NEW RESEARCH STUDY RECORD For Toxin Prevention Week( March 19-26 ), Safe Kids Worldwide is releasing its most recent study record,” Safe Medicine Storage Space: A Check Out the Disconnect Between Moms And Dad Knowledge as well as Behavior.”The record, established with assistance from Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc., the makers of Children’s TYLENOL ®, discovers the reasons ease appears to bypass care when it pertains to risk-free medication storage. The report has a look at the void between adult expertise as well as actions: and provides valuable pointers for how moms and dads can much better shield their kids around medication at home. Review the new Medication Research study Record INFOGRAPHIC We have actually developed a new infographic to highlight some of the most intriguing findings from the research and give ideas for parents in such a way that
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this infographic WHAT FAMILIES CANISTER DO TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN Shop all medication up as well as away as well as hidden and reach every time. To be risk-free, medicine should be stored concealed in a high cupboard or drawer where youngsters can not see it as well as
unreachable(at or over counter height). Maintain medication in its initial child-resistant packaging
. If you or another family member do pick to make use of a pill coordinator or baggie to help manage taking medicine, ensure you constantly save it up and away as well as out of view and also reach. Practice safe storage space of medication as soon as your first youngster is born. Infants as young as 3 weeks of age have wound up in the emergency situation department after getting involved in medication left within reach.Put the Poison Help number– 1-800-222-1222– right into your phone and post it noticeably in the house. Our research located that greater than 60 percent of parents reported not having the Toxin Help number saved in their phone or posted in your home. Having the number helpful– also if
- about medication safety and security and also the Toxin Assistance number.
- LEARN MORE For all our medicine safety and security pointers, go here. The
- Safe Kids Worldwide medicine safetyprogram was created with assistance from Johnson & Johnson Consumer,
Inc.
