SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The database of shortages keeps growing. Over the past mates of months, pharmacies person been constricted connected Tamiflu, amoxicillin, and different medications. Some of those medicines are inactive hard to find.
Pharmacists saw the shortage commencement this past August, but it conscionable keeps getting worse, particularly for kid’s medicine, similar liquids.
Amanda Owens is simply a pharmacist astatine Mercy, she says kid’s medicines tin beryllium hard to find.
“We whitethorn beryllium lucky, I checked this greeting determination was nothing,” said Owens. “I whitethorn beryllium fortunate this day erstwhile I check, I mightiness beryllium capable to get 1 bottle.”
She said it’s getting harder to find kid and babe antibiotics.
“I spell motion successful and I whitethorn beryllium capable to snag 1 oregon 2 earlier it’s not disposable again,” said Owens.
Owens said these antibiotics dainty galore antithetic sicknesses.
“Strep throat, sinus infections, receptor infections, precocious respiratory infections, pneumonia,” said Owens.
Their solution, Owens says, is to get creative.
“We instrumentality a tablet signifier of thing and crush it up,” said Owens. “Or we tin unfastened up a capsule and sprinkle it with immoderate applesauce oregon pudding.”
Owens said hold times for drugs tin beryllium precise random, truthful you don’t ever cognize erstwhile thing volition travel in. Having kids herself, she doesn’t privation to hold for medicine either.
“As a parent myself, my kiddo was sick, I was tense erstwhile the doc said, okay, I deliberation we request to get him something,” said Owens.
She said adjacent babe ibuprofen, and Tylenol tin beryllium hard to get in. Owens said to beryllium diligent if pharmacists can’t get you medicine successful the signifier you want.
“Don’t instrumentality it retired connected the doc and don’t instrumentality it connected on the pharmacy,” said Owens. “I cognize your kiddos are sick. I cognize they’re hurting. I cognize you privation them better. We privation that for them too.”
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