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Beware of Poisons!
The most important responsibility for you as a baby sitter is the safety of the children in your care. Poison prevention helps keep children safe.

Each year, children are poisoned by any number of household and personal care products, as well as medicines, vitamins, plants, lead and carbon monoxide.  Because children are smaller and have faster metabolic rates than adults, they are at a significantly greater risk of being poisoned.

More than 1.2 million unintentional poisonings among children ages 5 and under were reported to U.S. poison control centers.  In 2002, more than 111,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for unintentional poisoning.  Nearly 80 percent of these injuries were injuries were to children ages 4 and under.

Prevent poisonings by learning the what, when and where of poison prevention and what to do if a poisoning does occur.

What can be poisonous to children?