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Poison Prevention for Seniors

Check out our poison prevention tips and articles for seniors.

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Medications Can Get Confusing!

Many calls to Poison Control are from older adults who get their medications confused. This is always cause for alarm. Sometimes it's dangerous.

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Reed Diffusers: Household Risk

Reed diffusers are liquid air fresheners in a narrow-necked bottle with long "sticks" inserted in to the liquid. Ingredients vary, but two common ingredients can be dangerous to a child who swallows them.

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Diabetes Medication

For young children, there is no safe dose of pills to treat diabetes. Even one pill can cause a child's blood sugar to drop dangerously low, causing seizures, coma, or death.

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Ancient Shipwreck, Modern Medicine

If you haven't cleaned out your medicine cabinet for a while, you might find some old, old medicines hiding there. But they wouldn't be older than the medicines found at the bottom of the sea, near Italy. It's interesting to link ancient medicines with problems that still bother us today - and with modern treatments for the same problems from years past.

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The Hidden Sting: How Seabather’s Eruption Can Spoil Your Swim

Seabather’s eruption is an itching, burning rash that occurs when jellyfish larvae are trapped between the skin and a swimsuit. While it can be very uncomfortable, the rash is easily treated at home with over-the-counter antihistamines and topical steroids.

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Poison Control Jingles

Learn the Poison Help jingle (available in English and Spanish)! It's a catchy way to teach and remember the national number for Poison Control. We hope you never need us, but if you do, it helps to have the number handy. It's easy - just listen a couple of times and you will have it memorized. 

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Suicide Prevention

If you suspect someone you know is trying to hurt him or herself, the time to act is now.

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The Hidden Danger of Foxtail Grass

The flowering stems of many wild grasses have a unique foxtail-like shape that allows them to be easily inhaled by humans or animals. The inhalation—also known as aspiration—of wild grass can cause coughing, respiratory irritation, and lung disease, such as pneumonia, which can be very difficult to diagnose and treat.

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Would You Eat This?

Children who mistake laxatives for chocolate are at risk for severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, and possibly dangerous fluid loss.

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