(NewsUSA) – Grandparents love spending time with their grandchildren. Grandbabies bring so much joy. However, it\’s not unusual for the curious, tiny fingers of youngsters to end up in places they shouldn\’t. Putting precious or breakable objects out of reach is important, and so is keeping medicines and vitamins up and away and out of sight of young children.
More than 70,000 children end up in emergency departments each year after getting their hands on medicines left within reach. That\’s 165 kids — or roughly four busloads of kids — per day. Far too often, that medicine belonged to a grandparent.
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