■ Always store potential poisons out of sight and reach of children, like in a locked cupboard or in a wire cage with a padlock, high up where children can’t reach. Check all rooms – kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, garden shed – for potential poisonous substances. These would include anything, from household detergents and medications to cosmetics and mercury batteries as well as vitamins rich in iron, lead-based paint, kerosene, lighter fluid, weed killer and insecticides.
■ Always put medicines away immediately after use. Be careful with heart and blood pressure medications, antidepressants, sleeping pills, diabetes medications, pain medication and time-release medications, especially the ones you take regularly, as the routine of it all makes it easy for you to forget and leave them lying around. Vitamins also need to be…