Module 5, Problem Solving - Healthy Child Care America

Speaker's Notes:• Poison Control can usually access 911/EMS services.• It may not be necessary to call Poison Control foro a missed doseo a dose at the wrong timeo if it has been longer than the time should have been between doses; it is probably moreappropriate to call the child’s health care professional• More information about Poison Control is available at www.aapcc.org.• The AAP previously advised that parents keep a 1-ounce bottle of syrup of ipecac in the home toinduce vomiting if it was believed a child had swallowed a poisonous substance. The AAP nowrecommends that syrup of ipecac no longer be used routinely at home by parents or caregivers.For more information, please visit www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/novpoisonqanda.htm14