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Keeping children safe from harmful household products: a survey on safety practices in Croatia

Household chemicals are a common cause of poisoning incidents in children under the age of six in Croatia. We conducted a survey with 138 parents of children attending public kindergartens in the city of Zagreb, Croatia to learn about how parents keep their children safe from household chemicals.Eighty-four parents (62%) replied that they were familiar with safe ways of keeping potentially hazardous household products away from children, 19 (14%) admitted to not to know enough about that, while 33 parents (24%) were undecided. Twenty-nine percent of the parents stated they sometimes stored cleaning agents, products for personal hygiene, cosmetics, and medications out of the original packaging, and 17% sometimes kept products such as fuel, antifreeze, pesticides and rodenticides in the household.Only 38% of parents knew the names of the plants in their home and garden.Our survey has highlighted several issues important for future interventions: parents of preschool children need education about the safest ways of storing dangerous household chemicals and medication.

poisoning, household, parents, safekeeping

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