3 Tips For Protecting Your Kids From Poisonings At Home

While you may want to think that your home is the safest place for your young children to be, many children experience injuries that require medical assistance while at home. Especially for little kids who want to explore the world around them but don’t understand what constitutes a real danger for them yet, it’s vitally important that you as their parent take steps to ensure that your home is as safe as possible for them.

To help you in doing this, here are three tips for protecting your kids from poisonings at home. 

Purchase The Right Products From The Start

While you might be thinking that you don’t have anything at home that could be considered a poison, anything that your children could consume that isn’t meant to be consumed could poison them. So with this definition in mind, you should be careful about any products that you have at home that your young children could eat or drink. 

One area where this is of particular concern is in the laundry room or service yard. There are all kinds of cleaners and detergents that kids could mistakenly think are food. But when these cleaning agents are ingested, they can be deadly. Knowing this, it’s advised that no family with kids under the age of six use laundry or dishwasher pods, as these can more easily be confused with food by little ones. Rather, you should use powder or liquid detergents instead. 

Don’t Put Cleaning Products In Aftermarket Containers

We’ve all seen the trend online of taking the products that you get from the store and transferring them into glass or plastic labeled containers when you get home. And while this might give your kitchen, bathroom, or laundry room a certain aesthetic appeal, it could be putting your little kids in danger.

For most products that could poison children, special sealed caps and locks are part of the packaging. These things make it so that little kids have a much harder time opening the product to ingest it in the first place. But when you take these products out of their original packaging, you’re also taking away one more safety precaution.

Keep Potential Poisons Up High And Locked Away

Little kids who are more likely to accidentally ingest something that could poison them also have a hard time climbing up to higher cabinets or shelves. Because of this, you should put anything that could poison your kids up on these higher shelves where they can’t reach them. And as an even better safety measure, you could also lock these cabinets so that even if they are able to reach them, they won’t be able to easily grab them off of the shelves and see what they taste like. 

To help protect your kids from accidental poisonings taking place at your home, consider using the tips mentioned above to learn how to keep these things out of sight and out of mind.