It's true! According to the Tennessee Poison Center at Vanderbilt, poisoning is the second leading cause of death in Tennessee. That's why the Tennessee Poison Center at Vanderbilt (TPC) provides immediate first aid treatment advice for poison emergencies by phone. Last yest, TPC received 102,994 calls to the Poison Help hotline. If the unthinkable happens, it's good to know that help is a just phone call away. Since this is National Poison Prevention week, we encourage you to program the Poison Help number into your phone toady:
1-800-222-1222
TPC can help you with questions about:
- household products
- chemicals at work or in the environment
- drugs ( prescription, over-the-counter, herbal and illegal)
- snake and spider bites
- chemical terrorism
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