Saturday, December 8, 2012

Candy or medicine: Can you tell the difference? | Redux

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Candy or medicine: Can you tell the difference?

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Prescription use among Americans is up, and it may be contributing to the increase of unintentional drug poisonings of children at home. “I think that the medications are more available to children, meaning we are not putting them away like we used to,” said Dr. Michael Lanigan, emergency room physician at SUNY Downstate in Bay Ridge, N.Y. “And while there are child-proof lids, it's easier for kids to get into them. ”Data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers found that emergency room visits for pediatric pharmaceutical exposures have increased 30 percent between 2001 and 2008, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Click here to read more on this study. Medications that are commonly ingested include sleep aids, opioid painkillers, cardiovascular medications, diabetic drugs, cold medicines, aspirin and acetaminophen. And the side effects from these drugs can be toxic to children.

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Casey

Overall Sentiment: 0.210526

Relevance: 0.817526

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0.214203“Well, both of my parents are physicians, so I heard a lot of stories about these types of problems,” Casey said. ...
0.201297“Well, both of my parents are physicians, so I heard a lot of stories about these types of problems,” Casey said. “So I thought it would be interesting to do a study about it.”
0.69498“I wasn't very surprised that a lot of the kindergarteners couldn't tell the difference, but I was surprised because not a lot of the teachers did very well on the test,” Casey said. ...
0.578366“I wasn't very surprised that a lot of the kindergarteners couldn't tell the difference, but I was surprised because not a lot of the teachers did very well on the test,” Casey said. “I thought adults would know how to tell the difference because they have more experienced with medicines.”
0“I think manufacturers could make medicines to look less like candy because we believe that less of these ingestions will occur in kids,” Casey said. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 5
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 1.688846
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Dr. Michael Lanigan

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0“I think that the medications are more available to children, meaning we are not putting them away like we used to,” said Dr. Michael Lanigan, ...
0.150499“I think that the medications are more available to children, meaning we are not putting them away like we used to,” said Dr. Michael Lanigan, emergency room physician at SUNY Downstate in Bay Ridge, N.Y. “And while there are child-proof lids, it's easier for kids to get into them.”
0.190613“Opiods are very strong sedatives and if taken in large amounts, can induce sleep and even coma,” Lanigan said. ...
0.152568“Opiods are very strong sedatives and if taken in large amounts, can induce sleep and even coma,” Lanigan said. “Cardiovascular drugs can cause drops in blood pressure and heart rate… aspirin is a notorious bad overdose.”
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  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.49368
  • Mean: 0.12342
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Casey Gittelman

Overall Sentiment: 0.227374

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Lanigan

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Relevance: 0.53924

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0.151333“Toxic medications, those should be packaged as benignly and as less colorful possible,” he said. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.151333
  • Mean: 0.151333
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

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Drug: aspirin

Overall Sentiment: -0.453774

Relevance: 0.413247

FieldTerminology: medications

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Organization: American Association of Poison Control Centers

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Organization: American Academy of Pediatrics

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