Better safe than sorry.. make sure you have the phone number for poison control posted throughout your house and added to your cell phone phonebook.

Poison centers provide poison expertise and treatment advice by phone. All poison centers can be reached by calling the same telephone number 1-800-222-1222. Poison centers are staffed by pharmacists, physicians, nurses and poison information providers who are toxicology specialists.

All calls to a poison center are answered by a medical professional trained to answer questions about poisons. By answering calls to this phone number, poison centers provide immediate poison exposure management instructions