It has been found in a study that parents are doing great in ensuring household medicines are kept away from children. The study has been published in Pediatrics on Monday. It found that emergency room visits related to children who swallowed medicine without supervision have decreased to a large extent.

Researchers from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at countrywide representative data for 2004 through 2013. The data was obtained from a government surveillance system that involved emergency room visits for bad reactions of drugs in children aged 6 or younger.

It was found that there were approximately 640,000 ER visits, in which young children were involved who'd swallowed medicine, and there were fewer visits, nearly 623,000, that involved medicine aimed at children and given by parents or other caretakers. This is the conclusion for those 10 years of the survey.

As per researchers, ER visits for unsupervised medicine use rose from 54,140 in 2004 to approximately 76,000 in 2010; however, after that it fell each following year, to nearly 60,000 visits in 2013. It was found that visits for parent-given medicine exposure increased gradually throughout those years, from nearly 47,000 to 70,400.

The most common prescription drugs involved in the unsupervised group were opioids together with the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine and painkillers, together with anti-anxiety medicines and sedatives. There was also common use of over-the-counter vitamins, medicines that are used as alternatives and acetaminophen painkillers in syrups or pills.

The study did not find symptoms in the children in relation to the condition; however, the implicated drugs could lead to such reactions as breathing problems, drowsiness, vomiting, choking and allergic reactions together with severe skin rashes.