Inadvertent access to medications, including opioids, are a major concern.
By Emily Sohn April 28 at 8:30 AM It only took a few seconds. During a family trip, a woman took out an Ambien and put the prescription sleep aid on her bathroom counter. Then, she turned to grab a bottle of water. In an instant, her toddler grandson grabbed the pill and ate it.
“We have been building a better mousetrap or, in this case, a better bottle cap,” Budnitz says. “And we are trying to remind parents and other caregivers to put that cap on completely after every time they use it, and to put the medicine up and away and out of sight every time after they use it, even though they might need the medicine again in four to six hours.”
Living with an adult who has a prescription raises risks for kids. One 2017 study found that young children of mothers with opioid prescriptions had a much higher risk of going to the hospital or dying of an opioid overdose compared with kids whose mothers did not have a prescription. Diabetes medications and blood-pressure drugs show similar associations, according to other research.
That has been clear since 1970, when the Poison Prevention Packaging Act mandated child-resistant packaging on a variety of household substances. After that, there was a dramatic decline in the number of kids who died each year from poisonings. The PROTECT Initiative is now working to identify other medications that would be good candidates for improved packaging with flow restrictors, such as children’s liquid diphenhydramine . To help caregivers avoid unintentional dosing confusion, the CDC supports using milliliters as standard units on all liquid prescriptions. Consistent units can help adults avoid confusion about how much of each medication to measure out.
Some organizations advocate locking up medications. Others, including the PROTECT Initiative’s Up and Away campaign, advise putting medicines out of sight and out of reach of children , and making sure the cap is put on completely after use. Agarwal also recommends not taking medication in front of small children and not giving them medicine bottles to hold.
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