It’s important to keep your house poison-safe by storing potentially hazardous items properly and teaching children to always ask before they touch or taste things.
Home safety checklist
Keep your house poison-safe by following the easy steps on our home safety checklist.
Medicine Safety
In most households, medicine is one of the most dangerous things your child could get into. Use these tips to help keep them safe.
Vaping
It can be hard to know what to say to kids to help them understand the dangers of vaping. Here is a resource form the CDC that can help parents have this conversation: www.cdc.gov/tobacco/e-cigarettes/protecting-youth.html
Seasonal poison safety tips
Poison safety newsletter – What’s Your Poison?
This newsletter may be useful for parents, daycare providers, health educators and safety officers as well as health care providers.
Substance Use Prevention and Treatment
The poison specialists who answer the phone at the poison control center are able to help identify unknown pills for parents and caregivers of minors. A list of resources for drug abuse prevention and treatment is available here.
