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Nearly 52,000 children under age 6 were treated at emergency rooms for medicine poisonings across the United States in 2017, according to a new report. Although that's a decline since 2010, the report identifies some reasons why children may continue to be poisoned by medicines, offering key lessons for other parents.
Researchers conducted 90-minute interviews with groups of six to eight parents from urban, suburban and rural settings in Maryland, 42 parents total. The parents, who had reported keeping medicines in the home, were grouped by age, and each group represented a mix of race, ethnicity, education and income level.
"It's easy to look at your beautiful, newborn baby and think that he's not going anywhere anytime soon; believing you still have plenty of time to child-proof your home," Torine Creppy, president of Safe Kids Worldwide, said in a statement."But we've learned from our research that parents are all too often surprised by how quickly their babies grow and change.
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