Don’t Make Me Puke! Why Making Children Throw Up After Ingesting a Potentially Harmful Substance Is Not a Good Idea

A common reaction many people have when a child ingests something potentially harmful is to make them throw up. Our parents did it and it seems like a natural instinct, but inducing vomiting is not always the best course of action. Historically, we would make children vomit with syrup of ipecac (SOI). The idea was … more