Key Facts
- Each year, more than 100 children ages 14 years and under die as a result of unintentional poisoning.
- Each year, there are more than 91,000 nonfatal poisonings to children that are treated in hospital emergency rooms.
- More than 1.2 million unintentional poisonings among children ages 5 years and under were reported to U.S. poison control centers in 2004.
- In 2005, there were nearly 63,000 drug poisonings to children under age 5.
- Non-pharmaceutical products such as cosmetics, cleaning substances, plants, foreign bodies and toys, pesticides, art supplies, and alcohol are responsible for 56 percent of poisoning exposures for children under 5 years of age.
- Each year, an estimated seven children ages 14 years and under are fatally poisoned by exposure to carbon monoxide (CO).
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