It’s a moment of sheer panic. You find your child chewing something and holding an open bottle of medicine. You don’t know how much, if any, medicine your child swallowed. What do you do? Call poison control!  

On today’s CDC Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Robert J. Geller of the Georgia Poison Center, reminds us of why we need to program our cell phones with the poison control help line – 1-800-222-1222. Be prepared in case of an emergency and join the conversation http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare.  

This week, CDC launched an education program focused on protecting children from unintentional medication overdoses – Up and Away and Out of Sight.   

For more information about the Up and Away and Out of Sight educational program, visit www.UpAndAway.org or in Spanish www.UpAndAway.org/es.  

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