A TWO-year-old boy was flown to hospital after he ate up to 50 Nurofen pills on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, on the weekend, according to a Fairfax Media report yeserday.
The accident prompted the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand to encourage pharmacists to remind parents about keeping their medications out of reach of children who often see them taking medicines and assume it's alright to do the same.
The little boy had reportedly been left in the car alone for a "short time" in the early evening, his mother, Gabor, returning to find he had a "chalky mouth" and had eaten Nurofen and clonazepam.
Gabor said she was aware of how many tablets she had and estimated he could have taken up to 50 tablets.
Apparently he was happy in spite of his serious condition, but after being flown to Starship Hospital in Auckland, he was stabilised and recovering well at last report.
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