Journal article
Children's multiple vitamins: overuse leads to overdose.
Abstract
A suburban Ontario community hospital encountered 21 +/- 1 overdoses of children's multiple vitamins yearly between 1978 and 1981. Of these, 35% involved one particular cartoon character preparation. Parents were surveyed to determine whether this particular preparation resulted in a disproportionate number of accidental overdoses. However, the use of vitamins with a cartoon character format did not lead to a greater risk of overdose than did …
Authors
Issenman RM; Slack R; MacDonald L; Taylor W
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 132, No. 7, pp. 781–784
Publication Date
April 1, 1985
ISSN
0820-3946