Friday, March 23, 2018
When your child first finds their legs, the home can become a playground - and sometimes, it can become a hazardous one.The Up and Away campaign urges families to follow these five tips to keep their children safe and healthy:
Clean surfaces. Disinfect surfaces and objects that are touched often, like countertops, doorknobs, keyboards, faucet handles, phones and toys.
Store safely. When you're done cleaning and reorganizing, store everything you wouldn't want your kids to get into, like cleaning products and medicines, in a safe spot up and away and out of sight and reach of young children. Remember to put medicines back in their safe place after you use them every time.
Dispose safely. Dispose of any expired, unused, or unwanted medicines in your home. Make sure to follow recommendations for safe disposal to prevent exposures to medications that have been discarded. Consider bringing expired or unwanted medications to medicine take-back programs.
Be prepared. Check your first aid kit for expired medicines and supplies; medicines that are past their expiration dates may not work as well as they should. Make sure your first aid kit is stored in a location that is accessible to adults, but not to your young children.
Update your contacts. Make sure you have the Poison Help number stored in your cell phone and available to your children's caregivers: 800-222-1222.
Source: UpandAway.org.
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