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Button Battery Safety

Kids find and swallow the strangest things like buttons, marbles, coins, beads, small parts of toys, jewelry, crayons, kitty litter, popped ballons... need we go on? Lukily, their little stomachs can handle almost anything they can get down. The proof…

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Tags: Around the House Batteries

Laundry Detergent Packets

Laundry Detergent Packets Can be Harmful to Children Highly concentrated "single-load liquid laundry packets" can cause serious harm to young children. Poison centers receive many calls each year about children getting into laundry detergent packets. Swallowing it often causes mild…

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Tags: Around the House

E-Cigarette Devices and Liquid Nicotine

Electronic Vapor E-Cigarette Devices Be aware and take care! Unfortunately, the vaping craze has reached the toddler set, according to the Missouri Poison Center call statistics. The adult market for smokeless e-cigarette devices that vaporize a nicotine-laced liquid has been…

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Tags: Drugs

Poison Safety For Your Home

In honor of Poison Prevention Week, the Missouri Poison Center has received many terrific posters created by kindergarten through 4th grade students. The posters all teach about poison prevention and keeping their families safe from poisoning. Help is a phone…

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