Take Action To Prevent Childhood Poisonings
Saturday, June 2, 2012 @ 3:49 AM
The following is an op/ed piece submitted to Opinion250 from Northern Health’s Injury Prevention Coordinator, Denise Foucher
Prince George, BC – May 28 to June 3 is Canada’s Safe Kids Week. This is Canada’s largest national event to celebrate child safety and encourage action to keep kids safe. Held since 1997, this year’s Safe Kids Week theme is poison prevention.
Keeping yourself and your family members safe is a part of a healthy lifestyle. Injuries are not accidents, but rather, injuries are preventable events. Adult supervision, safety precautions, and education are important to preventing your children from being injured.
Information from the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre reveals:
- Over half of all poisonings occur in children younger than six years of age
- Every hour at least one child in British Columbia is poisoned
- 75 per cent of childhood poisonings involve substances that are in use at the time or are not in their usual storage place
Safe Kids Canada reports that our attention on safety and prevention is working. Childhood deaths and hospitalizations from poisonings dropped in half from 1994 to 2003 in Canada. Although children ages one to four experienced the largest decline in death and hospitalization rates, they remain at highest risk for poisoning, so we must continue to be vigilant.
Babies and young children learn and explore by putting things in their mouths. The risk of poisoning increases as children grow, become more mobile, and curiosity sets in. Since medications and vitamins are involved in the majority of childhood poisonings, Safe Kids Canada is encouraging parents to keep medications and other poisonous substances “Out of Sight and Locked Up Tight”.
For more information on poison prevention and Safe Kids Week go to www.safekidscanada.com.
Comments
So certain types of plastics are poisoning babies, so folks are running out and buying glass bottles. There is another poison people should worry about that is not only provisioning your kids but it’s also provisioning you. You get a dose of it every time you drink a glass of Prince George water. Don’t drink tap water you say? That’s okay your will dose will be administered every time you take a shower. What is this poison you ask? Fluoride in the water! If you care about your kids do the research on fluoridated drinking water.
Darn auto correct!
“Fluoride in the water! If you care about your kids do the research on fluoridated drinking water.”
Make sure they don’t swallow any fluoridated toothpaste and don’t prepare baby formula with P.G. fluoridated water.
http://www.princegeorgesaferwater.com
Let’s try that again:
http://www.princegeorgesaferwater.com/
Lamphear & his associates (2000) studied lead to impair the ability to think in children and teen-agers. Altho lead had long been known to be toxic to the brain and nervous system, even the lowest blood lead concentrations were capable of affecing the nervous systems. Lanphear et al found that among 4,853 children, ages 6 to 16, cognitive function was impaired at levels of lead in the blood even lower than 5 mg of lead. Specifically arithmetic and reading skills, non-verbal reasoning and short-term memory were all negatively affected at these low blood lead levels. This study is truly remarkable and impressive in the depth of research.
And fluoride lowers the IQ level of children as well….
http://naturalsociety.com/fluoride-lowers-your-iq-a-debated-truth/#ixzz1vtIWhZCf
“….cognitive function was impaired at levels of lead in the blood even lower than 5 mg of lead.”
The kind of chemical fluoride added to our tap water is leaching lead out of pipe joints and into the water. This fluoride is very aggressive and corrosive because of its high solubility. Naturally occurring calcium fluoride is highly insoluble. Prince George city water from the deep aquifer has already some natural fluoride in it. It’s a mystery why anybody would recommend an improvement of Mother Nature with the addition of an effluent from the phosphate fertilizer industry.
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