Greetings from
Hollywood! This month's safety tip is a deceptively universal one. Most folks
might assume that the only young children unable to read labels are in danger of
accidental poisoning. It's not true! A client of mine, that scatterbrain Sean
Young, learned the hard way that it pays to read labels carefully. Some years
ago, she was on a vitamin and mineral supplements kick, downing megadoses daily.
One day, she went to her medicine cabinet while gabbing on her cordless phone and
grabbed a dozen each of what she thought were C caplets and B complex tablets.
She swallowed them at a gulp, only to realize, to her horror, that she'd just
taken megadoses of Ex-Lax and Vivarin. She didn't sleep for three days and
couldn't leave her bathroom for four. Luckily, she had the cordless and spent the
time stumping for the role of Catwoman in BATMAN RETURNS (to no avail, alas!). Needless to
say, she's much more careful now about the pills she takes and so should you be!
Until next time, from Hollywood, this is Sara saying...Stay
Safe!.
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