WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.660 --> 00:00:22.260 Look what these little kids are doing. They've got into their mother's purse, they open 2 00:00:22.260 --> 00:00:26.360 a bottle of pills and they don't know what the pills are and they think it's candy 3 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:30.040 and if they actually take these pills they're going to get into some real trouble. 4 00:00:50.380 --> 00:00:54.520 And this is one way that children get poisoned. 5 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.240 Dr. Margolis, do you have many young children who get poisoned by getting into drugs and medicines? 6 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:06.080 This is probably our number one emergency in pediatric practice and with three busy pediatricians 7 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.940 we get about one or two calls a day with kids who do get poisoned. 8 00:01:13.960 --> 00:01:17.960 And it's the kind of thing they don't know much about and they're getting in trouble. 9 00:01:18.780 --> 00:01:22.420 And these little kids are about to play doctor and that's no kind of game to play. 10 00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:28.960 Tell your tell me about something that happened to one of your friends. Can you tell us a story about that poison? 11 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:36.460 Okay well one of my friends were sick and they thought they could keep the medicine all by themselves 12 00:01:36.460 --> 00:01:44.600 so they just climbed up into the cover and they opened the cover door and they saw some medicine and then they took it. 13 00:01:44.600 --> 00:01:57.380 And then they saw and the floor and they finally saw it and they rushed it to the hospital and they pumped it out of the atmosphere awful. 14 00:01:58.100 --> 00:02:07.480 Yeah that's one way that we used to do it all the time is to take a tube and put it down in the stomach and then pump all the poison out 15 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.600 and sometimes it takes a long time to get to the hospital. 16 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:18.220 So what we do with all of our patients now we have a better way and every doctor wants their patients to have it 17 00:02:18.220 --> 00:02:23.580 and we give this kind of medicine to keep in the house in case somebody gets poisoned and care off. 18 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.600 Serup of Ipacac? Now should all people have this in their home? 19 00:02:29.900 --> 00:02:33.840 Ipacac? You can get it from your pharmacist or your doctor. 20 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:39.140 Is it important to call the doctor first just in case this isn't the right type of poisoning? 21 00:02:39.140 --> 00:02:47.000 Yeah because there are certain things that we don't want them to throw up like the strong burning things that you clean the drain with could really kill you if you threw it up. 22 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.560 So that we want them to call first and be sure that they should have it. 23 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:55.860 We've tried to take it all together different approach that's I think deeper and more significant. 24 00:02:56.380 --> 00:03:03.880 And that is to make something that talks directly to three year olds, four year olds, and five year olds, and see how much they can understand about this. 25 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:08.760 Let's take a look at this cartoon and see what kind of responses we get from this gang. 26 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:30.300 Hey, Nifty, it's Mom. Time to get up. 27 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:36.440 Gee, Sniffy, what's the matter? Don't you feel good? 28 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:49.800 Hmm, no fever. Open your mouth. Sit. 29 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:57.440 Oh, gosh, that sounds awful. 30 00:04:01.980 --> 00:04:07.820 Boy, you must be sick, Sniffy. 31 00:04:10.940 --> 00:04:16.800 Whenever I get sick, Mommy gives me some medicine. 32 00:04:18.960 --> 00:04:24.480 Let's get you some medicine. Then you'll feel okay. 33 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:31.700 Mommy keeps all the medicine up there. 34 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:49.660 Boy, look at all this stuff. Here's the aspirin. 35 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:59.360 Mommy gives me aspirin when I'm sick, and it helps me feel all bit. 36 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:09.680 Boy, Sniffy, I bet if I give you a whole bunch of them, you'd really feel okay again. 37 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:41.240 I'm a little less friend-pill. I can help you when you're ill. 38 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:49.260 Little kids are not too touched. They always try to take too much. 39 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:49.640 40 00:05:49.640 --> 00:05:49.640 41 00:05:53.580 --> 00:06:01.860 The medicine is really strong. It fights the germs that do the wrong. 42 00:06:02.420 --> 00:06:09.480 But too much medicine would make you sick. It has to call you doctor quick. 43 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:15.900 But, Sniffy, I didn't know too much aspirin would hurt you. 44 00:06:17.200 --> 00:06:25.400 Hey, Sniffy, maybe you got a call. I'll give you some cough medicine. 45 00:06:27.980 --> 00:06:31.900 Excuse me. I'm cough medicine. 46 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:38.260 What's more, boys? A one? A two. 47 00:06:39.420 --> 00:06:47.080 I'm cough medicine. I help you when you cough. But little kids should keep hands off. 48 00:06:47.900 --> 00:06:56.100 Don't take medicine by yourself. You just leave us on the shelf. Okay? 49 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:22.820 I'm a little red too. I am blue. We might be dangerous for little ones like you. 50 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:30.600 We are the medicines you don't know about. So stay away from us or you better watch out. 51 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:53.900 A lot of little kids get hurt these way because they can't breed. What the models say? 52 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:01.560 So if they're tummy feel bad going to your mom or dad. 53 00:08:02.140 --> 00:08:09.240 And that means you and you and you and you. 54 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.880 Wow. Hey, Sniffy, aren't you sick anymore? 55 00:08:22.180 --> 00:08:23.940 I guess he's not sick anymore. 56 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:35.340 Gee, our cold made Sniffy awful sick. I'm glad we found out that only mommies and daddy are supposed to give medicine. 57 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:41.240 Anya, who was sick in the movie? 58 00:08:43.060 --> 00:08:44.080 Pissy did that. 59 00:08:44.820 --> 00:08:47.360 Before what was that red-headed boy going to do? 60 00:08:47.660 --> 00:08:48.580 Gives me. 61 00:08:49.280 --> 00:08:50.220 Where was the medicine? 62 00:08:51.300 --> 00:08:52.160 It clad me. 63 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.080 In the closet? Well, should little boys and girls be giving medicine? 64 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.080 No. Who should give medicine? 65 00:08:59.300 --> 00:09:00.320 Your wife is papa. 66 00:09:01.140 --> 00:09:03.280 How old is she? 67 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:04.260 How old are you, Onya? 68 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:05.820 She is old. 69 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:13.520 Wow. If she can understand that, you can go home and you can help your little brothers and sisters notice they are out of poison. 70 00:09:14.140 --> 00:09:16.360 Chrissy, I want to ask you a question. 71 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:23.360 If you and I were both very, very sick with the same sickness and the doctor was going to give us the same medicine. 72 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:25.700 Would he give us both the same amount? 73 00:09:26.260 --> 00:09:26.500 No. 74 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:27.380 Why not? 75 00:09:29.140 --> 00:09:31.260 Because I'm here because of me. 76 00:09:31.640 --> 00:09:32.520 And what was that mean? 77 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:35.980 That means that you would get a big dose, didn't you? 78 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:37.140 That's right. 79 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:44.140 And, Carol, if I weigh three times as much as you do, and I get one pill, how many pills would you get? 80 00:09:44.500 --> 00:09:46.800 Three. Three times more than you. 81 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:47.820 That's right. 82 00:09:48.380 --> 00:09:50.880 You're a good mathematician, I know, and you can tell. 83 00:09:51.340 --> 00:09:55.460 But it depends really on how much you weigh, and that's very, very important. 84 00:09:55.660 --> 00:09:59.240 We weigh our patients and see what to give them. 85 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:05.760 And one thing that we talk about dose, but the doctor has to be sure, he has exactly what he wants in the pill. 86 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:11.760 And we know for sure that when the drug companies make the pills, that they have just what they're supposed to have in the pill, 87 00:10:11.820 --> 00:10:16.600 so it's up to us to know how much to give, because we know for sure what's in the pill. 88 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:22.020 You have so many medicines, how do you adapt to know how much medicine to give people? 89 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:28.220 I often wonder about that, but the ones that we use all the time we have in our head, and we know how much to give exactly. 90 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:33.580 We have lots of new medicines and things that we have to know about, so we have a giant size book here. 91 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.280 And in this book there are just thousands of medicines that are listed. 92 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:43.420 You see all these pages, and you just, everything we want to look up, we can find, and it is a wow. 93 00:10:44.500 --> 00:10:50.620 Now, for instance here, the kids ever know about pinworms, so to make sure we go a little. 94 00:10:52.060 --> 00:11:01.100 If a person who weighs 150 pounds, he gets seven teaspoons, and for you who run around 45 pounds, you'd get two teaspoons. 95 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:07.060 So you see that we really have to have everything measured exactly and very, very carefully. 96 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:15.660 Now, give you an idea of something that I think will impress you, is that when we have these little tiny babies that are born too soon, 97 00:11:15.660 --> 00:11:18.380 they are called premature babies. Do you ever hear those? 98 00:11:19.500 --> 00:11:24.000 And the premature baby we have to weigh them, and see exactly how much he weighs. 99 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:31.240 And then depending on how much he weighs, we have to figure out how much milk he can take, and these babies are so small they can't even suck. 100 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:36.440 So we put a tube down in their nose, and into their stomach and we drip the milk in just the way we should. 101 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:42.540 And then the medicines that they need to kill the infection and trouble, we measure it drop by drop. 102 00:11:42.540 --> 00:11:49.860 So you can see that we really have to be careful, and people who know what they're doing have to do it, or we can really ruin those babies. 103 00:11:50.660 --> 00:11:52.140 I guess we're losing a friend here. 104 00:11:54.400 --> 00:11:59.780 Let's do a little test with your children. I've got five different pills here. 105 00:12:01.140 --> 00:12:04.780 They're all different in color and size. 106 00:12:05.900 --> 00:12:08.860 Which one of those, Danny, do you think is the most dangerous one? 107 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.540 That big red one. Which one do you think, Jennifer? 108 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:20.040 A little one. Well, you don't have to keep them. How about two, Jennifer? 109 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:23.200 Which one? That one? 110 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:27.380 I don't know. How can I tell? I don't know. What's in them? 111 00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:35.040 Well, good for you. That's the right answer. Really, none of you know what's in these pills, and none of you would really know which is the strongest one. 112 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:41.940 This one just happens to be an antibiotic, and this one, the two picked is a dangerous one. That's an arctic and really could put you to sleep. 113 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:48.840 And he picked a vitamin pill. So that you see that by looking at them, you don't know, and by the size of them. 114 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.700 You can't tell if they're dangerous or not, because a little one is more dangerous than the big one. 115 00:12:53.560 --> 00:12:55.400 Danny, who does know what's in a pill? 116 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:56.740 I got to. 117 00:12:57.020 --> 00:13:03.320 I want to play another game with your kids. I have some different kind of bottles here that we use nowadays for safety. 118 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:12.220 Danny, you see if you can open that one, and you see if you can open that one, and you see if you can open that one, and you can try that one. 119 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:20.220 Well, I see those, they're kind of the tops camera right off. Keep turning it, Danny. See if you can get it open. 120 00:13:20.400 --> 00:13:23.600 See, it just clicks, it doesn't pop open, because that's a safety cap. 121 00:13:24.060 --> 00:13:24.380 I know. 122 00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:26.720 That's right, and that's for what reason? 123 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:30.660 So kids can't get into it because they might be poisonous. 124 00:13:30.660 --> 00:13:32.020 That's right. 125 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:34.580 You can use that word poisonous like a professional. 126 00:13:35.820 --> 00:13:41.440 Carol, I think you might summarize Mrs. Simerton as a teacher. 127 00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:46.100 What we want over here today so that we have the teacher's point of view. 128 00:13:46.380 --> 00:13:53.920 It seems quite obvious that very young children are able to understand the concepts of poisoning and drug prevention. 129 00:13:53.920 --> 00:14:02.280 First of all, we know that every family should have syrup of epicach, right, and call the doctor first. 130 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:06.340 We don't take that until we know for sure it's best, right? 131 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:07.820 You can do it. 132 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:15.080 That's right, and all families should keep medicine up away from little hands that shouldn't be there, right? 133 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:23.840 Okay, so the important thing is that we know boys and girls are to wait till doctors, till mommies and daddy to give us the medicine. 134 00:14:24.520 --> 00:14:27.980 And that way we'll all stay real healthy and listen to our doctor. 135 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:29.100 Good idea. 136 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:34.540 Presented in the interest of boys and prevention through a grant from Mark Davis.