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Family Forum / Parenting / Children's Health / August 2005kid ate a little Extra Strength Tylenol
Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 a Tylenol pill. She just put it in her mouth and it sort of melted. Anyone ever had to deal with that? It happened about one hour ago and baby seems to be sleeping it off. > Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 a > Tylenol pill. She just put it in her mouth and it sort of melted. > > Anyone ever had to deal with that? It happened about one hour ago and baby > seems to be sleeping it off. Can you be absolutely sure it was only half a tablet? If not get to the hospital NOW. Kids die from overdosing on Tylenol. It effects the liver so effects don't appear immediately. http://ne.essortment.com/tylenoloverdose_rtev.htm > > Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 a > > Tylenol pill. She just put it in her mouth and it sort of melted. > > > > Anyone ever had to deal with that? It happened about one hour ago and > baby seems to be sleeping it off. By the way... No way should you rely on the safety lids to prevent kids getting at meds. What were they doing within reach anyway? They should be in a locked wall mounted cabinet out of reach. >> > Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 >> > a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > What were they doing within reach anyway? They should be in a locked wall > mounted cabinet out of reach. I totally agree. And getting the kid to the hospital NOW seems like a really good idea. Extra strength Tylenol is 500 mg, which means she ate about 250 mg of Tylenol. The little tike probably weighs about 11 kg (25 lbs), which means around 22 mg/kg. The toxic dose is 150 mg/kg, but, if you child swallowed a few pills, she could be over that. Jeff >> > Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 >> > a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > What were they doing within reach anyway? They should be in a locked wall > mounted cabinet out of reach. Uh, well, the kid got at it because I was clever enough to lift her up and hold her while she stood on a counter, opened the cabinet door, under my watchful eye, and took out the bottle. I guess I'll be a little more clueful next time. I feel real bad about this. She ran into the living room waving the bottle and she was sitting right in front of me, as I starred at the TV. I looked up and saw that the pills were spilled on the chair she had climbed on. Not a minute passed, I would say, between the time she climbed on the chair and the time I noticed the spilled pills. A day has passed and baby seems to be fine. This morning she was her usual cheerful self, wanting to go out and play in the rain, crying until I opened the sliding glass door to let her outside, when she cheered right up. When I got home from work, was also frolicking as usual. Once a year, it seems, I do something terrible to the baby. Last summer, when she was just a few months old, I dropped her from shoulder height. We took her to the hospital. I took a picture of her as she was strapped down and about to go into the CAT scanner. Ugh. She made it through that one, if you don't count the bump on her head. I am actually rather fond of the baby, but you might not know it by some of the things I do. >>> > Somebody didn't put the cap on right and a 15 month baby ate about 1/2 >>> > a [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > I am actually rather fond of the baby, but you might not know it by some > of the things I do. Accidents happen. Some lessons you should have learned from this one: 1) When there is a *possible* poisoning, don't go to the newsgroups. Call your local poison control center immediately. 2) Lock every medication and supplement up, so that there is no way your kid can get at them, Even supplements can be deadly to little ones. 3) Safeguard your house so that there are no chemicals of any kind that your kid can get at. They should all be locked up. Your kid will find them if they are not. 4) You need to watch your daughter every second when there is any type of drug or chemical available to her. When I was in medical school, a child was left alone for a few seconds while the mother was cleaning the floor. The daughter got some cleaning fluid in her lungs. Her parents declined to make her an organ donor the next day. Trust me, you don't ever want to decide if your daughter should be an organ donor. If there are chemicals out, and the door gets knocked on or the phone rings, you don't answer them unless you can watch your daughter every second while the chemicals are out. 5) You need to remember that for the next 4 years or so, you need to be with your daughter every second she is in the bath. She can drown faster than you can run to her. Jeff > A day has passed and baby seems to be fine. It's worth remembering that not all overdoses make you pass out. Some are much slower acting and damage organs like the liver. By the time symptoms appear it can be too late to do anything about it. >> A day has passed and baby seems to be fine. > > It's worth remembering that not all overdoses make you pass out. Some are > much slower acting and damage organs like the liver. By the time symptoms > appear it can be too late to do anything about it. There's always liver transplants, if you can find one. Better not to go there, though. Jeff >> A day has passed and baby seems to be fine. > > It's worth remembering that not all overdoses make you pass out. Some are > much slower acting and damage organs like the liver. By the time symptoms > appear it can be too late to do anything about it. Baby seems to be her usual cheerful self on this, the second night since The Incident. I'll call the pediatrician tomorrow and ask for an opinion on what I should do. |
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