{"id":60217,"date":"2018-03-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-health-alert-spring-cleaning-tips-for-your-health-from-the-up-and-away-campaign\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:32:02","slug":"alerta-de-salud-consejos-de-limpieza-de-primavera-para-su-salud-de-la-campana-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/alerta-de-salud-consejos-de-limpieza-de-primavera-para-su-salud-de-la-campana-up-and-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Alert: Spring Cleaning Tips for Your Health from the Up and Away Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 13, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/upandaway.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Up and Away<\/a>\u00a0campaign\u2014led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s (CDC) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/medicationsafety\/protect\/protect_initiative.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">PROTECT Initiative<\/a>\u2014is providing families with five important spring cleaning tips for household health and safety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/653031\/Up_and_Away_storing_medicines_safely.jpg\" title=\"Make storing medicines safely up and away part of your spring cleaning regimen.\" alt=\"Make storing medicines safely up and away part of your spring cleaning regimen.\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Spring cleaning can be a big part of keeping your family healthy and safe at home, and that means doing more than dusting and vacuuming,&#8221; said\u00a0Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Dan Budnitz<\/span>, Director of the Medication Safety Program at CDC and coordinator of the PROTECT Initiative, which focuses on children&#8217;s medication safety. &#8220;Every year, approximately 60,000 young children end up in the emergency room due to accidental medicine ingestions, so as you&#8217;re cleaning and reorganizing areas like bathrooms and medicine cabinets, remember to safely store medicines you are using and safely dispose of medicines that you are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Up and Away campaign urges families to follow these five tips to keep their children safe and healthy:<\/p>\n<ol type=\"1\">\n<li><b>Clean surfaces. <\/b>Disinfect surfaces and objects that are touched often, like countertops, doorknobs, keyboards, faucet handles, phones, and toys.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Store <\/b><b>safely. <\/b>When you&#8217;re done cleaning and reorganizing, store everything you wouldn&#8217;t want your kids to get into, like cleaning products and medicines, in a safe spot <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/features\/medicationstorage\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">up and away and out of sight<\/a> and reach of young children. Remember to put medicines back in their safe place after you use them every time.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Dispose safely. <\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Drugs\/ResourcesForYou\/Consumers\/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely\/EnsuringSafeUseofMedicine\/SafeDisposalofMedicines\/ucm186187.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dispose of any expired, unused, or unwanted medicines<\/a> in your home. Make sure to follow recommendations for safe disposal to prevent exposures to medications that have been discarded. Consider bringing expired or unwanted medications to medicine take-back programs.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Be prepared. <\/b>Check your <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/publichealthmatters\/2013\/12\/do-1-thing-first-aid\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">first aid kit<\/a> for expired medicines and supplies; medicines that are past their expiration dates may not work as well as they should. Make sure your first aid kit is stored in a location that is accessible to adults, but not to your young children.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Update your contacts.<\/b> Make sure you have the Poison Help number stored in your cell phone and available to your children&#8217;s caregivers: 800-222-1222. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additional resources on safe medicine storage are available at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/upandaway.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">UpandAway.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Up and Away\u00a0<br \/><\/b>Up and Away and Out of Sight is an educational campaign to remind families about the importance of safe medicine storage around young children. The campaign is led by CDC and its PROTECT Initiative in partnership with the CHPA Educational Foundation. For more information, visit\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upandaway.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">UpandAway.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PROTECT Initiative <br \/><\/b>The PROTECT Initiative is a collaboration among public health agencies, private sector companies, professional organizations, consumer\/patient advocates, and academic experts to develop strategies to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. For more information, visit\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/medicationsafety\/protect\/protect_initiative.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">CDC.gov\/MedicationSafety\/PROTECT\/PROTECT_Initiative.html<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/653031\/Up_and_Away_storing_medicines_safely.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/653031\/Up_and_Away_storing_medicines_safely.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p\/>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>SOURCE  Up and Away<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 13, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/upandaway.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Up and Away<\/a>\u00a0campaign\u2014led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s (CDC) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/medicationsafety\/protect\/protect_initiative.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">PROTECT Initiative<\/a>\u2014is providing families with five important spring cleaning tips for household health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>    &lt;div class=&quot;PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-familia-y-vida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}