Home Remedies for Children ?

The indiscriminate use of medication for children has become a habit in Brazil and other countries,
reports Folha Online.
Many families keep a stock of medicines on hand in their home.

But " contrary to what many people think,
even medications that can be bought without a prescription can cause irreversible damage to a child's health--
if used incorrectly or unnecessarily."
And many ailments in children , such as the common cough,
will go away on their own without the use of medication..

"We have a culture of resolving any problem with medications,
"says Lucia Ferro Bricks, a pediatrician at the Children's Institute
of the Clinics ' Hospital in Sao Paula..
Food supplements are also abused, as in most cases a proper diet
would satisfy the children's needs..
" When parents ask me to prescribe a vitamin, I tell them to take
several fruits and make a good juice for the child," says Bricks..

Adults More Likely To Be Poisoned..

" When people think of poison prevention, they tend to think of
little kids," says Debra Kent of the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information centre..

Yet, Kent continues, " most of the deaths from poisoning are
in adolescents and adults."
According to the Vancouver Sun, the majority of accidental poisonings
among adults " resulted from someone placeing a poisonous substances
in another unmarked container-- a plastic water bottle, for example."
Other incidents could have been avoided if people had simply turned
on the light and read the label before useing a product..

According to the Sun, " poisoning ranks fourth among the top 10
causes of deaths from injury in adults."