The questions and answers on this page are designed to help you, as a parent make healthy and safe choices for your children. Be Poison Smart. If swallowed, they can be harmful. If any answer is yes, store the product out of sight and out of reach of young children. A child is always changing and growing.
Children learn by doing what others do.
When they see someone smoking, taking medicines or drinking alcohol, they copy what they see. Syrup of Ipecac is a medicine used to cause vomiting when people eat or drink certain poisons. However, sometimes it can be harmful to make a person vomit, so use it only when the Poison Center or a doctor tells you to use it. Syrup of Ipecac can be purchased at a pharmacy without a prescription. Keep a bottle on hand.