Extreme care should be taken to keep younger children safe from poisoning. There are countless numbers of safety precautions to prevent child poisoning, but there are a few fundamentals. Child-resistant caps prevent young children from easily opening caps on containers that contain common household as well as prescription medicines. Not only does this fundamental child safety rule prevent many child poisonings from occurring, but should considered a common sense rule that all good parents abide by. Besides house fires and accidental poisoning, drowning is perhaps the most serious danger to children.
Many homes have some type of swimming pool or hot tub, and most homes have at least one bathtub.
Again, parental supervision is the key to preventing most drowning in children. As long as a parent or responsible adult is watching children while they are in water, there should be few serious problems. Along with adult supervision, pool rules must be established and made clear to everyone who uses a family pool in order to avoid accidents or drowning. It is always an emergency situation when a child is in the process of drowning. Once the child has been removed from the immediate drowning situation, the rescuer must assess the child's condition.