Halloween is close astir the corner, and Florida's Poison Control Center is releasing a database of things to support successful caput successful bid to person a harmless holiday.
Halloween is close astir the corner, and Florida's Poison Control Center is releasing a database of things to support successful caput successful bid to person a harmless holiday.

Spooky play is upon america and the Florida Poison Control Center wants you to person a harmless and blessed Halloween with your household and friends.

“Halloween is simply a amusive and breathtaking clip for kids, but it’s important to punctual parents and caregivers to beryllium alert of perchance unsafe situations,” said Dr. Dawn Sollee, Director of the Florida/USVI Poison Information Center – Jacksonville.

The Florida/USVI Poison Information Center - Jacksonville is offering the pursuing information and trick-or-treating tips to debar a Halloween “horror”:

Glow Sticks Are Fun and Bright — But Don’t Let Kids Take a Bite

There is an summation successful calls regarding glow sticks/glow-in-the-dark jewelry during October.

Remind children not to chew oregon interruption unfastened glow sticks oregon different glow products. Glow instrumentality liquid is minimally toxic successful tiny amounts.

  • Can origin tegument irritation

  • Can origin rima irritation and nausea if swallowed

  • Eyes are particularly delicate to glow liquid

Be Careful with Cosmetics

Avoid allergic reactions and tegument irritation.

  • Only usage non-toxic products intended for usage connected the skin.

  • Throw distant constitution that has expired oregon has a atrocious smell.

  • Test constitution connected a tiny country of tegument archetypal (like an limb oregon leg) to cheque for a imaginable allergic absorption anterior to applying it to the face.

  • Remove constitution and colored hairsbreadth sprays earlier bedtime, to forestall oculus and tegument irritation.

Trick-Or-Treating Tips

After kids cod their candy, a fewer reminders.

  • Some medicine and drugs tin look similar candy. Keep cannabis edibles retired of scope to debar mix-ups.

  • Inspect candy and toys to debar choking hazards and to guarantee treats are successful their original, unopened wrappers. Throw retired immoderate re-wrapped, location wrapped, partially wrapped oregon suspicious-looking candy.

  • Keep candy and cocoa up and distant from pets. Candy with the artificial sweetener xylitol successful it tin beryllium deadly for dogs.

Stay Cool — Use Caution with Dry Ice

Using adust crystal improperly tin pb to superior burns.

  • Wear gloves erstwhile touching adust ice, to forestall frostbite.

  • Don’t spot adust crystal straight successful punch bowls oregon cups. It tin pain the rima and throat.

  • Don’t store adust crystal successful an unventilated country and don’t adjacent your car windows erstwhile transporting adust ice.

  • Ingestion oregon tegument vulnerability tin origin important damage.

“Whether a kid has bitten into a glow stick, gets a rash from look makeup, oregon idiosyncratic gets burned by adust ice, we are disposable 24/7 to assistance with immoderate poisoning exigency oregon question astatine 1-800-222-1222,” Sollee said.

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A Jacksonville autochthonal and arrogant University of North Florida alum, Francine Frazier has been with News4Jax since 2014 aft spending 9 years astatine The Florida Times-Union.