Hennepin Regional Poison Center / Minnesota Poison Control System

We help people of all ages in all types of situations.

When children get into household products, Poison Center experts are just one call away.	Poison centers help seniors and people of all ages when they take too much or the wrong medicine.	Poison Centers give advice about preventing and treating chemical exposures on the job.

You do not need to have an exposure to call a poison center with a question. The Hennepin Regional Poison Center/ Minnesota Poison Control System (MPCS) is available 24 hours

a day, 7 days a week at 1-800-222-1222 and all calls are free of charge and confidential.

The phones are answered by pharmacists who are specially certified and trained in poison information. This is a national phone number that can be used anywhere in the USA to connect you directly to the poison center taking care of the area from which you are calling.

In 2003, the MPCS received 70,351 calls from Minnesota residents asking for advice on exposures to prescription and non prescription medications, drug abuse, household cleaners and chemicals, plants and mushrooms, gases, bites and stings, industrial and farm chemicals, pesticides, food poisoning and many other things.

The MPCS can provide material and information to help teach about poison prevention, first aid, and accessing the poison center .

Don’t Guess … Be Sure!

Call the Minnesota Poison Control System (MPCS)

at 1-800-222-1222

24 hours a day, 7 days a week

For more information, log on to:www.mnpoison.org

Education and outreach number, (612) 873-5644

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