Medication leading cause of child poisoning in United States

March 20, 2012

When children have access to a parent, sibling, or grandparent's medicines, it can be an accident waiting to happen, a new report shows.

A young child's instinct to put things in their mouth (including colorful-looking pills) or a kid's natural curiosity may kick in. Both of these situations can lead to medication poisonings in children.

Roughly 165 young children in the U.S. are treated in the emergency rooms every day after getting into medications, says a new report from Safe Kids Worldwide. That's more than 60,000 kids a year ages 5 and under who unintentionally take a medicine or overdose on it.

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