webPOISONCONTROL® Poison App

4.4
104 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The webPOISONCONTROL® mobile app provides expert help for a possible poisoning. It helps users determine if an exposure is dangerous and requires medical attention.

Did the baby eat a berry, a flower or a cigarette? Did you take the dog’s medicine? Did your toddler eat pills from grandma’s purse? Did you swallow something that might be poisonous? Did you splash a product in your eye or on your skin? Are you coughing from irritating fumes? Were you bitten by a spider? Did you take a double dose of your medicine? Don’t guess what you should do. Get accurate answers prepared by poison control experts.

Use the webPOISONCONTROL app to find out if you need to call Poison Control or go to an ER, or what to do if it’s safe to stay home. This free, confidential app will guide you. Just enter the age, substance, amount taken (if swallowed), weight, and time since the exposure to get an immediate recommendation. A barcode reader allows you to scan the product instead of typing or searching for the product name. Next tell us whether you have symptoms, and if so, the app will check to see if they are common, expected symptoms, or more serious. Often, it’s safe to stay home, but the app will tell you what symptoms to expect and when to call Poison Control or go to an ER.

Help is available for swallowed poisons, skin, eye, inhalation and injection exposures, and bites and stings. Users can get immediate guidance for medications taken in double dose or too close together. The app was developed by poison control centers and has been safely used by more than one million people seeking help for a poison emergency.
Updated on
Apr 9, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
98 reviews
A Google user
January 10, 2020
The one time I needed guidance to know if I had an emergency on my hands or not, it worked perfectly. Very easy, very quick. Guidance put me at ease and saved my daughter a trip to the emergency room! Four stars only because it encourages you to enter your email address...I'm not sure if the full functionality of the app is available without email and it's worth noting that I was pleased with the follow up emails for my case. I just don't like that I felt I had to enter personal contact info
31 people found this review helpful
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analu serrato
October 31, 2021
Was freaking out because my toddler loves to put everything in his mouth constantly. Went to the website and put the info of the product and it came back that he wouldn't need to go to the E.R. and it made me feel more at ease. Loooove the product scanner feature!! Loooove the fact that I get emails that ask about his well-being after every couple hours. Best believe that I downloaded the app. Definitely recommend
14 people found this review helpful
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Haley Searcy
May 17, 2025
They changed the app. Before you used to hit a checkbox saying the person was under 3 and then put in their age in months. Now, it's put in their age and click either months or years. I didn't notice this so when I put in that my 30mo ingested something it said he'd be fine. I got a follow up email 2 hours later for a follow up on a 30yo! Called poison control immediately and had to transport my baby to the hospital via ambulance immediately. This was a dangerous change to the app
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What’s new

Version 4.0 of the webPOISONCONTROL® app provides a faster, more user-friendly design, enhanced symptom entry enabling more precise triage, a robust landing page, context-sensitive help tools, greater visibility into how recommendations were determined, fewer obstacles to case completion, substance search filters, product error reporting, more amount entry options, and access to poison control hotlines on each page. Substance, barcode, image and algorithm databases are greatly expanded.