| Don’t Trust Childproof Packages
Parents, we can't presume that the child-resistant bottles used to package children's medicine are childproof — surprisingly, since I have a dickens of a time getting those push-down-and-turn bottles open and have been reduced to gnawing open a blister pack of kiddie Dramamine. In fact, doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have just reported that about 7,000 children are treated for overdoses of cough and cold medications each year, a whopping 66 percent of whom dose themselves. All of the children studied, two thirds of whom were between ages 2 and 5, survived the misadventure, although about one quarter needed activated charcoal to help neutralize the toxic effects of the drug overdose. The findings were posted in the online version of Pediatrics. "Any medication left in the hands of a 3-year-old is not safe," warns Melissa Schaefer, a physician in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC and the study's lead author.
The long goodbye
My mum is 94 and close to death. We think. I've been her carer for 15 years, and six years ago she came to live with us. By then, she had no memory, no common sense, little understanding and couldn't cope with any change - minor or major. While with us, she has had a hernia operation, has broken, successively, her pelvis (on a family holiday that I spent entirely in her hospital), her hip and her arm, and has had so many falls we've lost count. She seemed indestructible, and twice I've taught her to walk from scratch - a yard at a time with a Zimmer until she could take our daily walk around our turning with me on her arm. .
PMO blasted over development deal intervention
Steph, I want to thank you for showing me that there is hope. There is a life out there for me. I am at a crossroads and the days ahead will be filled with much grief, confusion and internal realization.
I will succedd. I will survive. I am a good guy. I am a good guy. I am a good guy!! Posted 30/01/08 at 12:47 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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