Free Poison Prevention Material Downloads
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CHILDREN
The West Virginia Poison Center Jingle
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Quills Up – Stay Away! A Poison Awareness Program featuring Spike
Appropriate for daycare, head start, preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten
Quills Up--Stay Away! includes: an 11 minute puppet show video, a teacher's guide with classroom activities, and educational material to send home. If you would like to borrow the video or have poison prevention materials for the classroom, contact the Community Outreach Coordinator at (304) 347-1379.
Click on the links below to view materials and obtain free copies of the Quills Up! program materials.
Your comments and suggestions help us in developing educational materials. Please complete and return the Educator Survey. Fax to the West Virginia Poison Center at (304) 347-3908 or e-mail to cmcburney@hsc.wvu.edu.
Mr. Yuk Stickers
West Virginia Poison Center Telephone Number Stickers
West Virginia Poison Center Telephone stickers. Don't fumble for numbers in an emergency. Place this sticker on each phone and be ready. Each strip contains 3 peel and stick stickers with the phone number for the WVPC.
What About Plants Brochure
Household plants have become one of the nation's leading causes of ingestions in children. The following lists are toxic and non-toxic plants. Since we cannot accurately identify your plants from a telephone description, it is important that you know the names of all the plants in your home and yard. If you do not know the name of a plant, you should have it identified by the nearest landscape or gardening center in your area.
Your Poison Center Pamphlet
For life-saving treatment advice about any kind of poison, call 1-800-222-1222. A specially trained nurse, pharmacist or doctor at your poison center will help. All services are free and confidential. Poison center services are available for people with hearing problems and for non-English speakers. When health care providers need information about treating poisonings, they also call their local poison center.
ADOLESCENTS
Poisonous Snakes of West Virginia Pamphlet
Approximately 25% of all venomous snake bites do not result in envenomation. This means that the snake may bite, but not inject any venom.
Bites & Stings Pamphlet
Bites and stings usually occur during the warmer months, when the weather beckons most of us outdoors and increases our exposure to bees, spiders, and caterpillars. These insects use poisonous venom as a means to capture prey or to defend themselves or nesting areas. The West Virginia Poison Center is available 24 hours a day to help you if a bite or sting occurs.
Energy Enhancers
Caffeine is a stimulating drug that is used to increase energy, enhance mood, and delay sleep.
Inhalant Abuse
It can kill suddenly, and it can kill those who sniff for the first time. Every year, young people in the country die of inhalant abuse. Hundreds also suffer severe consequences, including permanent brain damage, loss of muscle control, and destruction of the heart, blood, kidney, liver, and bone marrow.
What parents should know about Jimson Weed
Jimson weed is also known as: Datura Stramonium, thornapple, stinkweed, Jamestown-weed, Stramonium, Datura, Devil's Apple, Devil's Trumpet, Apple of Peru, Mad Apple, and Tolache.
ADULTS
West Virginia Poison Center Telephone Number Stickers
Poisonous Snakes of West Virginia Pamphlet
Approximately 25% of all venomous snake bites do not result in envenomation. This means that the snake may bite, but not inject any venom.
Bites & Stings Pamphlet
Bites and stings usually occur during the warmer months, when the weather beckons most of us outdoors and increases our exposure to bees, spiders, and caterpillars. These insects use poisonous venom as a means to capture prey or to defend themselves or nesting areas. The West Virginia Poison Center is available 24 hours a day to help you if a bite or sting occurs.
Energy Enhancer
Caffeine is a stimulating drug that is used to increase energy, enhance mood, and delay sleep.
Hobbies & Lead Poisoning
Hobbies and what you should know to keep your family safe from the dangers of lead poisoning.
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in America.
This is an updated version of a brochure originally produced through a collaboration between the West Virginia Poison Center and the West Virginia University Center for Rural Emergency Medicine (WVU-CREM). The CREM has since been subsumed under the WVU Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) (www.hsc.wvu.edu/icrc), which has kindly supported our use of some of the original content in the current version. The WVU-ICRC is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to advance the science and practice of injury prevention and control through research, education, outreach and service."
Pool Chemicals
Individuals can experience severe injuries caused by pool chemicals.
This is an updated version of a flyer previously produced by the West Virginia Poison Center.
SENIORS
Poison Prevention for the Older Adult
More than 14% of all deaths reported to Poison Centers each year are in persons over 60 years of age. More than 35% of these reported deaths are from unintentional exposures to medications or household chemicals. Over 30% of hospital admissions of the elderly are because of problems related to medication. Over 62% of all adverse medication reactions are potentially preventable.
Medicine and You for Older Adults
As you get older you may be faced with more health conditions that you need to treat on a regular basis. lt is important to be aware that more use of medicines and normal body changes caused by aging can increase the chance of unwanted or maybe even harmful drug interactions. The more you know about your medicines and the more you talk with your health. care pJofessionals, the easier it is to avoid problems with medicines.
Caring Older Generation Pamphlet
How Can You Prevent Poisonings? Store all cleaners and chemicals in the containers they came in. Never put cleaners or chemicals in food containers. Install a carbon monoxide (CO) monitor to keep your home safe. Never treat your pet with medicines that are intended for humans without talking to your veterinarian.
Pets & Poisons
Dogs, cats, and other animals are curious, a natural behavior that places your pets at risk of being poisoned. Many things in your home may be poisonous to your pets. You can help keep your pets safe by storing and using poisons safely.
Letter To Grandparents
Do you use any prescription, or over-the-counter medicines? Did you know that one third of the poisonings reported among children under age six are from prescription drugs commonly used by older adults (high blood pressure pills, heart medicines, etc?) In fact many childhood poisoning deaths result from eating a grandparent’s medications. This happens at both the child’s home and the grandparent’s home.
PETS
Pets & Poisons
Dogs, cats, and other animals are curious, a natural behavior that places your pets at risk of being poisoned. Many things in your home may be poisonous to your pets. You can help keep your pets safe by storing and using poisons safely.
POSTERS
Parenting WIN Poster
NEED A SPEAKER?
The WVPC also has a Community Outreach Coordinator who would be happy to help. The Community Outreach Coordinator travels throughout West Virginia. The coordinator delivers speeches and presentations to a wide range of age groups concerning a variety of poisoning topics to meet your needs. The presentations are informative as well as entertaining as displays, puppets and household products are used as props to get this very important message across. Health fair participation gives the public an opportunity to ask questions about the display, props and brochures as well as concerns about poison prevention.
The Coordinator covers the whole state of West Virginia. A minimum of 3 weeks notice is suggested. Dates are scheduled on a "first come, first serve" basis. If you would like to schedule or talk to the coordinator concerning your group or organization, please contact the Coordinator, Carissa McBurney.
Since it is impossible for one person to educate the entire state about poison prevention, the WVPC is developing a network of volunteers to assist the Coordinator in delivering the poison prevention message. Your assistance would be appreciated. These "Poisonteers" will assist the Coordinator by delivering presentations and attending health fairs in their community. The WVPC will provide materials and support to these volunteers. If you are interested in learning more about our "Poisonteer" program please contact the Community Outreach Coordinator, at (304) 347-1379.
*The Quills Up! materials are copyrighted by the American Association of Poison Control Centers and may be used, without edits/modifications, for poison prevention education.
This program was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U50/CCU317503-03 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
