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small children have a way of getting into everything.they don't know the difference between sweet and a pill or between lemonade and a medicine syrup.they have a habit of putting everything into their mouth and by mistake a side effected syrup can be drunken by the children and that is why medicines are kept away from the reach of the small children .

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To prevent them from being misused, by children for instance.

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11y ago

All medications. Medications are dangerous, body altering substances. An overdose of any type of medication can be dangerous.

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