Poison
control centers are frequently flooded with calls from victims who
accidentally ingest poisonous substances. The sad part is that most
of the time, the calls come from people who take common household
items without knowing that they are dangerous. Many toxicology
experts note that many of the household chemicals you take daily can
have adverse and possibly lethal effects when misused.
If
you have children, poison-proof your entire house by installing
safety or childproof locks on your cabinets to keep them from being
accessed unwittingly. Store all your cleaning chemicals, medicine,
and pesticides well away from their reach, but you might still need
to lock them up to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
Keep
all food items and potential poisons far away from each other. You
could be distracted one time and pour something dangerous into the
soup you're cooking. Store them in different cabinets too, especially
those with similar looking containers, and don't be lazy to put them
back where you got them.
The
bottles of chemicals and medicine you have are usually very colorful
and may very likely entice a child to play with them, so make sure
that they are stored in child-resistant containers or under lock and
key in your bathroom's first-aid kit.
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