DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i01.001

Pages: 1-8

Pediatric emergency departments have recorded visits by afraid parents who are worried that their child has been poisoned. Often, attendances of poisoning cases at emergency room after poison exposure is unnecessary, but sometimes for lifesaving. In young children especially among toddlers aged between one- and three-years poisoning is common accidentally while they explore their environment as part of their normal natural development, or deliberately in response to stress or underlying mental problems .Young children are at a high risk of accidental poisoning when they try to discover the world around them by playing with things – opening the cabinets, mother’s handbag , imitating their parents or adult in actions especially if there is an elderly at home has one of geriatric diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mullites …and taking medication contiguously so an accidental poisoning occurs as a trial from child to learn who ingest that. The child is detected by parents or caregiver by chance while playing with a packet of tablets or with some of them in mouth. Deliberately poisoning usually happens in adolescent as attempting self-harm or suicide purpose by ingested large quantities of tablets than young children. Poisoning may be presents because of error doses which is prescribed by health professionals by wrong.