poison prevention

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Poison Prevention

Northern New England Poison Center

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Poisons

• Poisons can make you sick or kill you.

• Poison labels may have the words– Caution– Warning – Danger

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Poisons

• Drugs or medicine• Wrong dose• Wrong person

• Cleaning products or chemicals

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Poisons

• Gases you can or cannot see (carbon monoxide)

• Fuels or oils (lighter fluid, lamp oil)

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Poisons

• Pest control (bug spray, rat poison)

• Wild plants or mushrooms

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Poisons

• Car products (windshield washer fluid, gasoline)

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Poisons

• Old lead-based paint (chips and dust)

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How do poisons enter the body?

• Mouth

• Nose

• Eyes

• Skin

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Where are poisons?

Everywhere

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What is a poison?

What is safe?

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Poisons / Toxic

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Paint

Wild Berries Cleaning Products

Plants

Poisons / Toxic

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Safe

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Fruit

Pizza

Stamps

Bananas

Safe

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Medicine

Safe or Poison

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Juice

Look-a-likes

Cleaner

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1-800-222-1222Northern New England Poison Center

Your Poison Center

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Poison Center

• Put the Poison Center number on or near the phone.

• Call the Poison Center first if someone is poisoned.

People at the Poison Center know about poisons.

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Free

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Day and night (24 hours a day)It is always open.

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Language interpretation

1. Dial 1-800-222-1222.

2. State your language, for example “I speak French.”

3. You will be placed on hold, do not hang up.

4. Someone who speaks your language will come on the phone.

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SecretDon’t be afraid to call.

Only the people who help you will know your name.

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Prevent poisonings• Keep the tops of medicines on tightly.

• Do not let little kids see you take medicine. They like to act grown up.

• Call medicine – medicine, not candy.

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Prevent poisonings

• Keep products in their original containers.

• Keep poisons locked and up high so children can not see or reach them.

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Wear a safety mask

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Wear gloves Wear goggles

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First Aid

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Eat or drink poison?

• You took too much or the wrong medicine?

• Your child drank a chemical?

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First Aid

1.Drink a little water.

2.Call the Poison Center, 1-800-222-1222.

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Poison in your eye?

• You sprayed cleaning product in your eye?

• You sprayed bug spray in your eye?

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First Aid

1.Rinse eye with water.

2.Call the Poison Center, 1-800-222-1222.

15 minutes

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Poison on your skin?

• You spilled cleaning product on your skin?

• You spilled gasoline on your skin?

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First Aid

1.Rinse skin with water and soap.

2.Call the Poison Center, 1-800-222-1222

15 minutes

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Breathed in a poison?

• You breathed in a poisonous gas?

• You breathed in a cleaning product?

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First Aid

1.Go outside and get clean air.

2.Call the Poison Center, 1-800-222-1222.

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Someone passed out oris not breathing

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First Aid

1.Call 911.

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Northern New England Poison Center

• 1-800-222-1222

• www.nnepc.org