If your child ingests medication, follow this procedure:
- Stay calm but act quickly.
- Take the medication away from your child.
- If the medication was eaten, make the child spit it out. Run your fingers around their mouth and remove any remaining pieces.
- Don’t make your child vomit.
- Call the Poisons Information Centre (01) 809 2166 (9am -5pm).
- Always take the product container with you to the telephone or to the GP or hospital.
- If your child is unconscious, having seizures or not breathing, call an ambulance right away.