Community Focus: Protecting children from accidental medicine exposure

Community Focus: Protecting children from accidental medicine exposure

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The poison control center says it receives a call for a child accidentally being exposed to medication every 15 seconds. In a report last year, the U.S. Center for Poison Control estimated there were more than 68,000 emergency room visits nationwide for unintentional poisonings among children under 5 years old, an increase of about 6,000 from 2021. The data also shows pediatric poisonings resulted in 98 fatalities …