About 60,000 children under age five end up in the emergency room every year after getting into medicines left within reach. National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 – 24) serves as a reminder to always keep medicines up and away.
This year CDC partnered with the Up and Away campaign to share resources to help parents and caregivers keep medicine out of reach and out of sight of children:
- Up and Away Brochure
- Up and Away Poster
- Safe Medicine Storage for Parents
- Safe Medicine Storage for Travel
- Safe Medicine Storage for Grandparents
- Coloring Book
- CDC Medication Safety Program
- FDA Medicines in My Home
CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network also compiled their own resources related to poisonings: