Parents are being asked to use caution after five children had to be admitted to the IWK’s poison centre in the last nine days after consuming cannabis edibles.
That’s the number of cases of unintentional ingestion the hospital typically sees in a year.
“Here we are pretty much in lockdown right now, people are spending more time at home and children are at home more, so right now the trend is an increase in exposures,” said Laurie Mosher, the poison centre’s clinical leader.
“Our calls have more than doubled from this time last year.”
She said the spike is concerning because children can have a particularly strong reaction to cannabis.
“They’re very small and they’re not users, they don’t have a tolerance,” she said. “They can be drowsy for one or two days. They can have prolonged effects.”
She said all children who consume cannabis are admitted to the hospital to be monitored because of the intensity of their reactions.
Mosher said that in most cases the children aren’t consuming lower-dose products often found at the NSLC. She said these cases have involved products ordered online with concentrated dosages.
“We’ve had children consume a few hundred milligrams of THC.”
Mosher said the edibles need to be locked up and that storing them in…
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Parents are being asked to use caution after five children had to be admitted to the IWK’s poison centre in the last nine days after consuming cannabis edibles.
That’s the number of cases of unintentional ingestion the hospital typically sees in a year.
“Here we are pretty much in lockdown right now, people are spending more time at home and children are at home more, so right now the trend is an increase in exposures,” said Laurie Mosher, the poison centre’s clinical leader.
“Our calls have more than doubled from this time last year.”
She said the spike is concerning because children can have a particularly strong reaction to cannabis.
“They’re very small and they’re not users, they don’t have a tolerance,” she said. “They can be drowsy for one or two days. They can have prolonged effects.”
She said all children who consume cannabis are admitted to the hospital to be monitored because of the intensity of their reactions.
Mosher said that in most cases the children aren’t consuming lower-dose products often found at the NSLC. She said these cases have involved products ordered online with concentrated dosages.
“We’ve had children consume a few hundred milligrams of THC.”
Mosher said the edibles need to be locked up and that storing them in…