If you’ve got visitors in town – check their medications!
Grandparents and other guests aren’t always as careful as you are keeping their meds kid-proof. Dr. Richard Besser put some medicine bottles to the test with a group of toddlers. Those pill organizers were simple to get into – and they got the easy-open prescription bottles in under 30 seconds – those are common containers for senior citizens. The child-proof bottles could NOT be cracked by the team of toddlers – but only if they were completely closed and locked.
Keeping pills out of reach isn’t good enough. Small children watch where we put things – and are excellent climbers. And it’s not just prescription drugs we need to worry about - acetaminophen is the most common accidental ingestion by kids – and it can be deadly.
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