DID YOU KNOW THAT....

Every 15 seconds, a Poison Control Center somewhere in the United States gets a call. More than half of these calls are from an adult tending to a child who has swallowed, touched or inhaled a potentially poisonous substance.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are approximately 2 million poison exposures in the United States every year — 57 percent of which are among children under the age of 6. Tragically, approximately 30 children die every year due to accidental poisonings.

The most common exposures for children are ingestion of household products, such as cleaning substances, medications, cosmetics, personal care products, foreign bodies and plants. The majority of these accidental poisonings — 90 percent — occur in the home.

Source: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia