The sun is out! The temperature is nice and it's a great time to be outside.
On Ask the Expert, Liz Petty with the North Texas Poison Center joined the KRLD zoom room. She says this is the time of year calls go up due to bad interactions with plants, garden chemicals and critters.
Some advice she gives includes keeping kids from picking random plants to avoid exposure to such conditions like "tulip fingers" and rashes from poison ivy. She says keeping them out of gardens all together could keep them from running into any insects and possible snakes or spiders that could bite them.
The best advice she says is to keep the plant tags from any plants you put in your yard... that way, if you need to call the poison center, you can identify the plant you were exposed to.
The North Texas Poison Center is available at (800) 222-1222.
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