What is a poison?
Poisons can hurt you – or even kill you –
if you eat them, breathe them in, get them in your eyes, get them on your skin, or get them under or through your skin.
Arkansas Poison Control http://arpoisoncenter.org/
Poisons can hurt you – or even kill you –
if you eat them, breathe them in, get them in your eyes, get them on your skin, or get them under or through your skin.
Arkansas Poison Control http://arpoisoncenter.org/
What are the most dangerous poisons for adults?
Products and medicines can hurt you if they are used the wrong way, by the wrong person, or in the wrong amount. For example: • Drugs (prescription, non-prescription, herbal, illegal, or animal medicines) • Cleaning products that cause burns (drain opener, toilet bowl cleaner, oven cleaner, rust remover) • Auto fluids (antifreeze, windshield washer solution) • Carbon monoxide gas (leaky furnaces and chimneys, gas stoves and water heaters, generators and space heaters used indoors) • Hydrocarbons (furniture polish, lighter fluid, lamp oil, gasoline, paint thinner, kerosene, turpentine) • Pesticides (weed killers, ant and roach killers, mouse and rat poisons, garden chemicals) • Wild mushrooms |
Be Prepared — Just in Case
• Put the Poison Control Center number on or near your phones. • Tell everyone in your home where to find the number. • Call the Poison Control Center right away for any kind of poisoning. Poison experts will tell you what to do. When to Call Your Poison Control Center
Call 1-800-222-1222 . . . • For help with any kind of poisoning. • To ask about a poison. • To ask about preventing poisonings. • To get phone stickers, magnets, and materials with the Poison Control Center phone number. |