Poison Control Centers

What are Poison control centers?  Well, its not too difficult to figure out that these centers help people with poisons.  But what does that actually entail?  Well, the poison control centers have a hot line, which is 1-800-222-1222.  This hot line is a universal hot line to all of the centers around the country, which can all be found at http://www.aapcc.org/about/united-states-poison-centers/ or on the map I will post on my blog.  There are 55 poison control centers across the country and they can all be located on this map.  So what does this hot line do?  Well, this hot line is available 24/7, and is able to answer all sorts of questions and provide information about poisonings.  According to the site http://www.answers4families.org/information-services/volunteer/news-articles/what-does-poison-control-do , things that the hot line can answer for people include questions concerning reactions to any kind of food and/or medication, concerns about mixing certain drugs, questions about food that has been recalled lately, questions concerning the identity of medication, concerns about the health of family, friends or yourself, and much more.  So what do the poison control centers do?  Hopefully after reading the above information you have a better understanding of what they do.  They are centers available to people to contact when they are concerned about poison, and the hot line above will connect you to the center in your local area.  Ohio is actually one state which contains two poison control centers.  One being located in Columbus, the other being located in Cincinnati.  According to http://poisonhelp.hrsa.gov/poison-centers/ , the center in Columbus is the Central Ohio Poison Center and the center in Cincinnati is the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center.  A definition of what a poison control center does can be found at http://poisonhelp.hrsa.gov/poison-centers/about-poison-centers/index.html.  It states "Poison centers provide educational services to prevent poisonings, as well as help during poison emergencies to people who need it."  However, if you are looking for more details about poison control centers, I hope there was some information in this blog that was helpful in giving a little more specifics to what these centers actually do.