The South Texas Poison Center is available 24 hours a day to provide assessment, referral, and treatment recommendations to all people in South Texas. The Poison Center has poison information specialists available to provide assistance and answer your questions in English, Spanish, and with TDD for the hearing impaired.
Interpreters are available for other languages.
The poison information specialists are skilled in assisting both the general public and health professionals . A poison is any substance that causes harms when it comes in contact with the body of a human or animal. The Poison Center opened in 1995 as part of the Texas Poison Center Network, which consists of 6 Poison Control Centers, which serve the state of Texas. The network also insures the shortest time period possible before each call is answered. The power of prevention Store potentially dangerous products and medicines out of sight, out of reach, or best of all, locked up.