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Poisoning
Na onal onal Safety Council: 90 percent of of poisonings happen at at home and and are are the leading cause of of uninten onal onal death Up and and and and Away shares solu ons ons for storing medica ons away from curious li le le hands and and and mouths The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids provides a a a a a parent toolkit with ps for talking to to kids at various ages about the danger of drugs that aren’t prescribed to them Carbon monoxide (CO) known
as the silent killer undetectable
without equipment is odorless colorless and tasteless Annually in in in the United States uninten onal CO poisoning causes more more than than 20 000 000 emergency room visits 4 4 000 000 hospitalized pa ents and more more than than 400 deaths Only a a a a a CO detector can iden fy this toxic gas so it is is important to to to install one on on every level of a a a a a a a home and in in in areas with CO-producing equipment and and appliances like the garage and and kitchen Fires
Home Home res res start quickly and and and quietly The Department of Homeland Security reports that res res can become life-threatening in in in a a a a a a a a a mere two minutes and and and
