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Show Page 10 (EJe Utah Poison Control Center answers 129 calls a day People and poison g shouldnt phone surcharge, said Barbara items; in 9 years of was analgesics and in Insley Crouch, Pharm.D., age, it 13-1- non-dru- mix. When they do, most of the times unintentionally, phones at the Utah Poison Control Center (UPCC) ring. In 1998, staff at UPCC handled 47,085 calls, an average of 129 calls per day, according to UPCCs annual report for that year. resource for UPCC is a toxclinical information, poison icology consultation and poison prevention intervention. Established in 1971, it is a program of the University of Utah College of Pharmacy and a cooperative public service of the Utah State Department of Health and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. The primary mission of UPCC is to provide emergency telephone service to the public and health professionals of Utah during a poisoning emergency, to provide professional and public 24-ho- ur 24-ho- MSPH, UPCC director. We are adults, it was bites and stings. UPCC is staffed with regisgrateful to state senator David H. Steele, sponsor of the bill, and tered pharmacists, nurses and also to state representative physicians with additional trainMelvin Brown and senate minor- ing in clinical toxicology. The cenity leader Scott Howell who were ters Specialists in Poison Inforinstrumental in the bills pas- mation undergo a minimum of six weeks training prior to indesage. Calls to the UPCC in 1998 orig- pendently answering poison exinated in all 29 Utah counties. posure calls. After two years in Sixty-fou- r percent of poison ex- the center and handling 2,000 posures reported to the UPCC poison exposure calls, UPCC last year involved children staff members are required to sit younger than six. Ninety percent for the Specialists in Poison Inof these patients were managed formation Proficiency Examinaby UPCC specialists over the tion to become certified. Medical phone. Management eliminates the need for poisoned patients to visit their primary health-car- e providers or to go to a health-car- e facility, and also on-si- reduces health-car- te costs, e and clinical toxicologists are available to physicians and UPCC staff members for consultation at all times. Leave young Crouch said. The vast majority of poison education and to reduce exposures, 32,879, occurred in a health-car- e costs. residence, the report shows. The Our program was stabilized most common substance categotremendously in 1998, with the ry involved in exposures in chilpassage by the Utah State Leg- dren younger than six was cosAbout this time every year the islature of senate bill 221, which metics and personal care items; will provide funding by includ- in children it was foreign Division of Wildlife Resources receives elk calves and deer and ing the UPCC in the 911 tele bodies, toys and miscellaneous animals and birds where you find them 2, pronghorn antelope fawns, picked up by people who believe UNIVERSAL STORAGE CENTERS the animals have been For Your Storage Needs Now Renting! 10X12 - $40.00 per month 10X10 - $30.00 per month 5X1 0 - $22.00 per month ONE MONTH FREE WITH ANNUAL CONTRACT Great Location Security Fence Asphalt CALL Room 623-780- 6 ttUffolQR PIOOPO 151 North 800 East Nephi, Utah 623-472- Those who find them often take them home and then, after finding out how hard it is to feed and care for them, turn the newborns over to the Division. The Division doesnt have the personnel or facilities to raise young animals, and in turn sends the babies to private wildlife re- -' habilitators. Tremendous costs are incurred for the care of orphaned" animals but the problems become even worse if the animals survive. Zoos and natural parks have plenty of North American elk, deer and pronghorn, and are usually unwilling to take on ad- ditional 3 aban- doned. captive-raise- d animals. If animals are turned loose, they become nuisances, pests and even danger-- Q o Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Nephi, Utah (Eimes-efti- B ous having lost their fear of people. natural So whats the best thing you can do, should you find a elk calf, or deer or pronghorn fawn ih the wild? If you find an unattended newborn, leave it alone and walk away. Its probably being watched from some distance by its mother. If the baby is in obvious danger from cars or some other hazard, simply move it out of the way and back away. Dont carry the fawn away, and dont take it home. Its almost always best to leave a baby animal exactly where you find it. Wild animal parents often leave their young unattended while they feed and go about their daily routine. They know the young animal has a much better chance of survival on its own. Calves and fawns, almost odor-fre- e and well camouflaged with a spotted coat, are to survive with only periodic visits from a parent. The Division also discourages people from picking up baby birds. About this time each year, "baby birds begin jumping from their nests, which have become too small for the growing nestlings. Because baby birds dont fly very well, they usually end up on the ground, where they will continue to be fed by their parents, until they learn to fly. If a baby bird is encountered, the best thing to do is to leave it alone. Dont try to put it back into its nest and dont take it home. Parent birds will continue to feed and care for their young, wherever they land. 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