No longer a Poison Control virgin...

summerbrideDC · March 2009

I was on the phone w/ my parents and Ethan was, I thought, talking to the kitties in the dining room. When I got off the phone and went to him, he smelled every so florally delicious. Because he'd been taste-testing my Oil of Olay bodywash.?

All I have to say is, I am going totally organic from here on in. When I read the list of ingredients to the woman on the phone at Poison Control, not only could I barely pronounce 90% of what goes into it, but the last ingredient has the word CYANIDE in it. Are you f'ing kidding me????!!!!?

Anyway, "give him lots of water and keep him awake for a couple hours to make sure any alcohol is out of his system" OMG, I am a horrible mother!!! Totally chit-chatting on the phone while Ethan mixes himself a body wash cocktail in the dining room. I'm mortified. I think he probably only had a little tiny bit (he said it tasted horrible, so I'm doubting he ingested a ton), but still.....my poor little bean.

DandelionMom · March 2009

(((hugs))) Almost every mother I know has had to call PC. I had to call when Kate was a toddler and I found her sucking on a tube of toothpaste.

The Burts Bees stuff is pretty good if you're looking for more natural ingredients!

monchichi · March 2009

I have poison control programmed in my phone. ?I've called a handful of times--probably being overcautious. ?I guess I would rather been safe than sorry, but there's a small part of me that hopes they're not keeping a file

?DS is sneaky and can undo almost every single child lock we have! ?DD never gets into anything....knock on wood!

Kapalua · March 2009

The same thing happened to us, only with hand cream. Don't beat yourself up...it happens!

Rebekah1021 · March 2009

Don't feel bad - DD ate Melatonin pills and I had to call PC.

babykin18 · March 2009

Yeah..I called when Dh and I were watching TV, Ds had just started crawling and we looked down to see him drinking, no chugging, out of dh's beer bottle. Now if I didn't feel like the neglectful mother.

BubblyToes · March 2009

I'm a pharmacist and I've called. When I did my rotation through PC in school, 95% of my calls were from moms. It's amazing how fast they can get into something.

And yeah, those ingredients are scary sounding.

JOEBunny · March 2009

My DD choked on an apple at a party in front of 30 people. I started beating on her after a person across the room noticed because I didn't (she was sitting on my lap). The part that was horrifying was that she had just come upstairs with the apple slices, which she had been eating alone with another little kid.

She also got out of the car once into traffic while I was feeding the meter. I didn't even know she could get out of the car seat by herself, much less, open the door and close it back. Thankfully, someone driving slowly by on the very busy street yelled at me and made sure I understood what had happened.

august0605bride · March 2009

Harry ate my Lancome Renergie moisturizer once-- I freaked, but the label said if ingested drink water, and all the ingredients were natural. ?And very expensive, the little jerk.

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Glad he's okay!!! ?How scary!?

tammy79 · March 2009

Oh, gosh I'm sorry, don't blame yourself for this, these kids will get into?everything. We've called them 3 times already, and the last time was for a bottle of liquid tylenol, we had to take to the ER to check his tylenol level, I cannot leave him alone for a second.

belle204 · March 2009

Yeah, A's tasted the dishwashing liquid before. I freaked out but she was fine. It happens. I'm sure he won't try that again. ;-)

meghans30 · March 2009

I am so jinxing (?) myself . . . I have yet to call PC. I thought about it once when I thought my son ate some dry wall compund.

knmommy · March 2009

Had to do that for DS once. We ended up at the ER and they had to give him the charchol (sp) stuff. We followed up with the pedi and she had said she had to call poison control for her DC the week before. So don't feel bad!!!

CubbyMama · March 2009

Yeah, Keira decided to do a shot of dish soap in the middle of a Target aisle while I was picking out dishwasher detergent last week, so I lost my PC virginity, too, and felt equally like a sucky mom. I think it happens at least once to everyone, though! Hope he doesn't feel sick...poor guy!