CORRECTION: 'SOS Poison' Smartphone app Saves Lives

CORRECTION: 'SOS Poison' Smartphone app Saves Lives

ALMERE, The Netherlands, January 28, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - CORRECTION: For UK residents please visit the USA app store to download
the SOS poison app.

    What do you do when a child has eaten a buttercup? Should you induce
vomiting in a child when it has drunk bleach? Everyone with a smartphone can
immediately find answers to these types of questions by using the new SOS
Poison app. The app is available for iPhones as well as Android phones.

    The SOS Poison application for smartphones contains an alphabetic list
with 190 toxic substances. For each substance, there is an instruction on
what to do if a child has ingested it. In addition, the app also contains a
list of more than 60 toxic plants. Every plant has a clear photo next to it,
so that users can immediately recognise which plant a child has eaten from.
The app also provides advice on ticks, snakes, jellyfish, bees or wasps and
there is a separate chapter with prevention tips and other relevant
information.

    "This app is of course intended for parents, but is certainly also useful
for teachers, playschool teachers, sports instructors and others who deal
with children," says publisher Don Veldkamp.

    The SOS Poison app is a publication by the Dutch Foundation 'Ticket to
Prevent'. The foundation works closely together with experts from the Dutch
Red Cross, The Orange Cross, and 'Consumer and Safety', the Dutch consumer
safety watchdog.

    "An important advantage of the app is the ease with which new advice or
altered insights can be implemented. We can therefore continuously keep the
app up-to-date," says Veldkamp.

    If you buy the SOS Poison app, the latest updated version is always
available for free, via the app store. The app has now been available for a
few weeks, and is clearly catching on. One user writes: "This is an amazing
app if ever I've seen one. If you have young children, this is almost a
must."

    "The SOS Poison app is available in English, German, Dutch and French. We
are currently busily translating the SOS Poison app, and making it available
in the app stores of other European countries," says Veldkamp. The SOS Poison
app can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes App store for the payment of 2.99
pounds. Android users download the app directly via their mobile phones, from
the Android market.

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Source: Ticket to Prevent

Information: Mr Don Veldkamp, tel.: +31(0)36-53-43-554, e-mail: dveldkamp@tickettoprevent.nl