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About a quarter of the calls involved children under the age of 12 being exposed to poison. And an increasing number of calls are coming from older adults with questions about prescription-drug interactions. The hotline helped approximately 29,000 callers avoid making a trip to the emergency room, saving the community an astonishing $30 million in emergency-treatment costs. The center has provided this type of valuable community expertise since 1979. Back to Community |
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Your toddler just put some cleanser into her mouth. Or your elderly father thinks he may have taken too much of
his powerful prescription drugs. What do you do? In 2007, more than 105,000 people turned to Banner Poison Control Center for expert and reassuring information after they or a loved one |
ingested a foreign substance, got stung or bitten, or had a question about prescription drugs. It was a record-breaking number of calls for the free 24-hour hotline, which is staffed by specially trained nurses, who, in turn, are supported by a team of medical toxicologists. |
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