Locking cabinet doors, installing baby gates and keeping chemicals out of reach are all commonsense actions taken by parents with active little ones. But many hidden dangers aren't so obvious. Drain cleaners, medicines and pesticides are automatically locked up when Baby becomes mobile, but seemingly safe items can be overlooked by even thorough parents.

Debra Holtzman, child safety expert and author of The Safe Baby: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Home Safety (Sentient Publications, 2005), mentions several items not so evidently toxic, starting with alcohol. "Children are much more sensitive to the toxic effects of alcohol than adults," Holtzman says. "Alcohol can cause a child's blood sugar to plunge to a dangerously low level, which can lead to seizures, coma and even death in a young child."

But what contains alcohol? Actually many items not found in the liquor cabinet:

• Liquid hand sanitizers
• Mouthwash
• Perfumes
• Colognes
• Aftershave
• Cough and cold medications
• Vanilla extract

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