Northwestern Ohio Poison Control Center

How Your Poison Center Helps You:

In the United States, poison centers provide immediate treatment advice for poison emergencies. They also provide information about poisons and poison prevention, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Poisons can hurt you - or even kill you-if you eat them, breathe them, or get them in your eyes or on your skin. The poison center can help you with questions about:
- Household products
- Chemicals at work or in the environment
- Drugs (prescription, over-the- counter, herbal, or animal medicines)
- Snake bites, spider bites, and scorpion stings
For life saving treatment advice about any kind of poison, call 1-800-222-1222. A specially trained nurse, pharmacist, or doctor at your poison center will help. All services are free and confidential.

Poisons center services are available for people with hearing problems and for non -English
speakers.

When health care providers need information about treating poisonings, they also call their local poison center.

Poison Prevention Tips
Store Poisons Safely
- Store medicines and household products locked up, where children cannot see or reach them.
- Store poisons in their original containers.
- Use child-resistant package. But remember-nothing is child -proof!

Use Poisons Safely
- Read the label. Follow the directions on medicines and products.
- Are children around? Take the product or medicine with you to answer the door or the phone.
- Lock products and medicines up after using them.
- Is it medicine? Call it medicine, not candy.
- Children learn by imitation. Take your medicines where children can't watch.

Teach Children to Ask First
- Poisons can look like food or drink. Teach children to ask an adult before eating or drinking anything.