Jenny Lee a mother of two, George (6) and Gracie (3) is affectionately known to her high school sweetheart and husband of 11 years as well as her family and friends as "an over protective, worrier and cautious mom."
In 2007, her daughter Grace ran a fever of 103.7 degrees. Having stayed up the whole night carefully monitoring her daughter's fever, Jenny found herself exhausted and her judgement became clouded the next morning. She second guessed herself and could not remember as to when she had given Grace the last Motrin dose and realized her son had thrown the piece of paper of where she had written it on (she later found it behind the sofa in an paper airplane form). So she gave her another dose.
Fear struck her as she realized only after that she had given her daughter double dose of Children's Motrin. She called poison control and after seeing that her daughter did not show symptoms of an overdose, poison control concluded that she had not double dosed Grace but due to lack of sleep was just second guessing herself.
This became a horrifying experience and an almost tragedy for Jenny. After the extreme guilt she felt and questioning herself as to whether she was a good mom or not, she realized that she wasn't alone. She spoke with numerous parents and caregivers as well as Poison control who all informed her this situation happens to parents everywhere daily. "Busy, active mom's lives and sleep deprivation makes parents second guess themselves as to when the last medicine dose was given" added Poison Control.
She discovered that since moms go back to work or run errands, for example, they sometimes forget to tell or hand the dose pad log to their child's dad, grandparents, babysitters as to when they gave the last dose of children's Tylenol or Motrin to their child. Hence the Dose Keeper was born.
Jenny Lee uses her degrees in Psychology, Nutrition and Fitness but most importantly her own personal frightening experience to help educate caregivers about the dangers of accidental overdosing on over the counter children's medications.
She donates the Dose Keeper products and holds free workshops for low income families in hopes of educating them about proper usage of medictaions, which no one is born knowing. Over 57,000 accidental overdose of children's medictaions occur every year which has led to organ failure and death in chidlren.
The world known Mayo clinic has even added "that the difference between a dose and a fatal ovedose is small."
After all, TO ERROR IS HUMAN, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF YOUR CHILD, a motto Jenny Lee tries to share with others.