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If a child with a chronic illness needs to receive medication during the child care day, child care providers cannot legally refuse to give it. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), giving medicine is considered a necessary accommodation for the child to participate in child care. For medicines that children need for a short time, the child care provider may have more leeway. In either case, when medications come into the child care facility, child care providers must address the risks involved.For more than 20 years, federal law has required child-resistive packaging for all oral prescription drugs. The only exception is when a purchaser requests that the pharmacist not use the special packaging.
Routine use of child-resistive packaging reduces child deaths from unintentional ingestion of medicine by about 45%, but some pharmacists don't follow the law for every prescription.
One of the reasons that medications are not always in child-resistive packaging is that many adults become frustrated trying to open these containers. New, more adult-friendly forms of child-resistive packaging will help this problem. As of January 1998, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission requires that testing of child-resistive packaging follow revised protocols. Already these revised standards have led to new ...