Each year, one of every 150 two-year-olds visits an emergency department for an unintentional medication overdose, most often after finding and eating or drinking medicines without adult supervision.
Dr. Dan Budnitz, director of CDC’s Medication Safety Program, blogs that many children get into medicine when adults forget to follow simple steps such as closing the child-resistant packaging and putting medicine up and away—out of children’s sight and reach.
Learn what parents can do to protect children and join the conversation: http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare . For more information about the Up and Away and Out of Sight educational program, visit www.UpAndAway.org or in Spanish www.UpAndAway.org/es.
