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Roughly 20 percent of families with kids under five experience an accidental poisoning every year. More than half the calls to the National Poisons Centre are about this - and children aged 1 to 3 are the most likely group to be poisoned.
Having said that, anyone of any age can be poisoned by anything from medicines, to household or garden products, plants, spiders or gases.
Would you know what to do?
Joining Kathryn is Adam Pomerleau - he's the director of the National Poisons Centre - which is based in Dunedin, but operational 24/7, 365 days a year. The number to ring is 0800 764 766.
He discusses what the Centre does, the most common ways people are poisoned in New Zealand - and most importantly, the basics of what to do, if you or someone around you - has been poisoned.
