If your child might have taken a poison and is not acting normally, passes out, has a seizure, or has trouble breathing: Call 911 or get emergency medical care right away. Don’t try to make your child vomit or give ipecac. Take the bottle or container of the pills or liquid that your child took to the ER or hospital.

What Can Help Prevent Poisoning?

To help prevent poisoning:

• Keep medicines in locked cabinets.
• Keep cleaning products and alcohol in locked cabinets or far out of reach.
• Discard (or recycle) used button cell batteries (like those in remote controls) safely. Store unused ones far from children’s reach.
• Never tell a child that medicine tastes like candy.
• Never put cleaning products in containers that were once used for food or drink.
• Never put rodent poison on the floor.

Manitoba Poison Centre

1-855-776-4766 or 1-855-7POISON

The Manitoba Poison Centre operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It provides specialized information and treatment recommendations related to chemical, biological, pharmaceutical and environmental poisoning and exposure.