Unsafe storage of household medicines: results from a cross-sectional study of four-year-olds from the 2004 Pelotas birth cohort (Brazil).
Delba Fonseca SantosMarysabel Pinto Telis SilveiraAline Lins CamargoAlicia MatijasevichIná Silva SantosAluísio J D BarrosAndréa Dâmaso BertoldiPublished in: BMC pediatrics (2019)
The results indicate that medicines were unsafely stored in a 21.4% number of homes, which can contribute to the vulnerability of children to poisoning from medicines. To minimize this risk, education about the safe storage of medicines should be reinforced by health professionals.