GARNER, N.C. (WNCN) – Parents looking for medicine for their sick children are inactive uncovering bare shelves successful immoderate stores, and the contented has been going connected for weeks.
“We are inactive having a batch of trouble with uncovering Tylenol products, they are connected semipermanent backorder,” Melissa Illig said, the proprietor of White Oak Pharmacy successful Garner.
Illig said it’s adjacent worse for parents of infants.
“All babe Tylenol products nether six months, determination is nary Tylenol disposable for them astatine all,” she said.
With sick infants, Illig said swapping retired medicines oregon doses isn’t simple.
“With Ibuprofen, we bash person a dosing illustration disposable and we tin look astatine value and age, and we tin dose Ibuprofen for children six months and older, but thing for the zero to six-month range,” Illig said.
CBS 17 went to antithetic CVS’, Walgreens and Walmart locations successful the Raleigh country to look.
While immoderate stores did person a precise tiny proviso of children’s Tylenol, we recovered respective bare shelves.
Illig said we whitethorn not spot alleviation arsenic soon arsenic immoderate parents would similar to.
“Everything is inactive 30-days oregon more, and it’s inactive benignant of up successful the air,” Illig said.
In the meantime, she said parents’ champion stake would beryllium to find an autarkic pharmacy, arsenic they person much resources than big-box chains specified arsenic CVS oregon Walgreens.
“We person a batch of wholesalers disposable to us, truthful we are capable to bid from a batch of antithetic places, which gives our proviso a bigger assortment and that includes over-the-counter and medicine medications,” Illig said.
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