Dr. Ashley Alker

Another one that can do this that is very dangerous, but we probably just don't think of is iron.

Iron is something that can cause severe liver toxicity, liver failure and death.

So multivitamins, which are often gummy vitamins these days, often contain high amounts of iron.

And so you have to be careful with kids.

For adults, iron,

you know, it's less of a problem.

It's really when kids get into, at least in the amounts that are found in vitamins, obviously those are created for adults, but often kid vitamins don't contain iron for that reason.

Cause if they get in there and they're like, Ooh, you know, my yummy Flintstone vitamins, they don't, you know, and they eat the whole thing.

Iron is one of the things that you don't want in those pills.

So, you know, iron overdoses, Tylenol overdoses, these are things that are in your medicine cabinet.

that can be deadly in overdose and you just need to be very careful with, lock your medicine cabinet, they should always be kept away from kids.

Other things that people probably don't think about is carbon monoxide.

That's a huge one.

And it was very interesting in my research, I found that most homes or like around half homes in the United States don't have carbon monoxide detectors.

We all have fire alarms, which is a bit annoying because at some point, you know, we can figure out our house is on fire.

But carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless.

You don't know when it's there until it's too late often.

This is one where people often come into the emergency department and are, you know, I have headaches, nausea, vomiting.

There's a story in there about a couple who were on vacation in a hotel in Mexico.

But I mean, I should mention in the U.S.