Lesson Learned----Poison Control Hotline

last night (or should i say early this morning at 5:30am) i learned a very valuable lesson which i never would have thought of before. i learned that even though bottles of childrens medication have child proof locks they arent necessarily child proof, and also that even though you think that you have the bottles of medicine high enough that you think that your child cant reach them, never underestimate your child, they can reach them. if they are like my son they will take a chair, and stand on it while you are blissfully sleeping and not even knowing that anything is going on, and then they will clean out the whole medicine cabinet and bring all the medicine in their room. so anyway, the reason that i am saying all of this is because i woke up at 5:30am this morning to the sound of my daughter, who is going to be 7 years old, screaming that my son had medicine, so i woke up out of a sound sleep, ran into my kids room, to find my son on the floor with a pile of liquid medication around him, so i scolded him and started to clean it all up. then i saw an open empty bottle of ibuprofen, not a drop left in it, and the cap somewhere on the other side of the room. so i questioned my son and daughter, my daughter said that she didnt know if he drank it, because she was sleeping, and then my son who is 4 said that he had drank it, and drank the whole bottle. i didnt know the truth of this or not, because like i said he is only 4 years old, but i started to flip out anyway. so i booted my computer up as quickly as i could, and looked up the number to the poison control hotline. which every parent needs to have handy at all times, in a spot that you can locate for things that may happen like this. the number is 800-222-1222. so anyway i called them and i gave them all the information, like his weight, age, what the medicine was, what the dosage was, and how much the bottle holds. and they said that even if he had drank the whole bottle that he would still be okay, would just be drowsy and have a stomachache. they were so helpful and calm there, they really were very helpful, and the representative that i talked to was very nice too. again this is a number that every person, whether a parent or not, needs to have available, because as my son proved you just never know. for now, until we can figure something better out we are putting the medicine in the highest part of my bedroom closet, so that hopefully they cant reach them, and also that if they tried if we were sleeping we would hopefully hear them trying to do that. needless to say, my son is fine, he seemed like he got a little sleepy and went to sleep for a little bit, and that was it. so at least it was nothing more serious, but needless to say that was my heart attack for the day that he gave me i guess. and i hadnt actually went to sleep until 2:30am this morning, more about that later though in a different post.