According to a study, almost 70 percent of the poisoning cases amongst children are caused by the accidental ingestion of medicinal drugs. This kind of accidental ingestion is not only well prevalent in America, but is increasing in India as well. It can have hazardous consequences on children and can sometimes even prove fatal.

Children occasionally have easy access to their elders' medicines and finding the packaging of the medicines attractive, can many a time, out of curiosity or in a playful state of mind take in the medicines in large quantities which cause them serious harm.

Moreover, such accidents being easily preventable don't make any sense taking place at all in the first place.

Such risks to medicine ingestion can be reduced by simply preventing children's access to them. In the West, child-resistant caps are being used on a majority of drugs and it is being made a general norm. Even in India, Child-resistant caps or Child Resistant Closure (CRC) mechanisms are being used for most drugs so that children cannot access the contents of the medicine package easily.

The use of child-resistant caps have been made mandatory for most drugs in the US, and such a regulation in India will help reduce the accidental ingestion of drugs.