Nearly 2,000 calls were made by parents and guardians who were worried their kids may have been poisoned by over-the-counter medicine.
Helplines for the National Poisons Information Centre received nearly 1,300 calls about children being affected by ingesting of paracetamol. Stats released under the Freedom of information Act show the substances they took calls about last year. Those relating to children included 1,288 calls for paracetamol and 625 for ibuprofen, which is in Nurofen tablets.
It is understood that children accidentally ingested these medicines accidentally. Experts have warned parents to keep these common household products well out of sight of their kids, the Irish Mirror reports
