Common Exposures
The Poison Control Center provides families and educators with helpful information about poisons, potential poisons and hazards in the home and other locations children visit.
- Alcohol and tobacco
- Bee and wasp stings
- Calamine lotion
- Carbon monoxide
- Cough and cold medicine
- Crayons
- Eye exposures
- Foreign bodies (objects not meant to be swallowed)
- Freon gas
- Glow sticks
- Household cleaners
- Inhalation exposures
- Insect repellents
- Irritating chemicals (caustics)
- Jellyfish stings
- Matches
- Mushrooms
- Nail polish
- Nonpoisonous berries
- Nonpoisonous plants
- Oil and automotive products
- Personal care products
- Plants that irritate
- Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac
- Poison prevention
- Poisonous berries
- Poisonous plants
- Poisonous seeds
- Rodenticide (rat and mouse poisons)
- Saccharin
- Spider bites
- Torch fuels