The CDC defines poison as any substance that is harmful to your body when ingested, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin.
Acute poisoning in children is a major preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. Most accidental poisonings occur in young children 1 to 5 years of age in the home as a result of ingesting medicines, household products (e.g. bleach, cleaning agents, fuels such as paraffin), pesticides (weed killers, insecticides, acaricides), poisonous plants (Daturas (thornapple), mushroom). Drowning in unsecured cattle dips has also become an important route of pesticide exposure to children . . .
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