  urlLink Personal Health: Antidotes for Poisons Are Just a Phone Call Away : "What should you do when a child may have swallowed something poisonous?
Call the Poison Control Center, (800) 222-1222. This number, which will connect to the center serving your phone exchange nearly everywhere in the 50 states, should be posted next to every home telephone and carried in wallets. Poison Control centers are staffed 24/7 by full-time trained staff members, who can tell exactly what to do, if anything, when someone has, or may have, been exposed to a toxic substance.
Whatever you do, do not try to make the child vomit unless told to do so by a poison control specialist. If the child vomits spontaneously, keep the child's head below the hips and try to catch all that comes up in a bowl in case there is a need to analyze the contents. " 
