WEST POINT, Ms (WCBI) – Spikes successful RSV, Flu, and COVID cases are contributing to nationwide shortages of children’s symptom alleviation medicine.
Those shortages are adjacent being felt successful the Golden Triangle.
Many pharmacies are besides moving retired of liquid antibiotics that would dainty precocious respiratory infections.
Having a sick kid is atrocious enough,
but not being capable to find the medicine they request to get amended tin beryllium scary.
Pharmacist Erica Turnipseed talked to maine astir however the medicine shortage is affecting her squad successful West Point.
” We cognize what to dainty with but we don’t person the resources oregon drugs to dainty with, truthful it’s beauteous frustrating. I’ve ne'er seen shortages this terrible and past this long,” said Turnipseed.
Turnipseed has been a Pharmacist astatine Point City Drugs successful West Point since they opened 9 years ago.
She says that she has ne'er seen a shortage of medicine similar this, adjacent during COVID.
Point City drugs are seeing a terrible shortage of liquid antibiotics Amoxicillin and Cephalexin.
What is usually an overflowing support is near bare due to the fact that she tin present lone person 2 bottles astatine a time.
She says they are besides seeing dwindling numbers of over-the-counter medicines.
” We besides person seen shortages of liquid ibuprofen and Tylenol which is benignant of scary. We’ve had to bounds immoderate purchases connected those with families. Families are wanting to get 1 vessel for each kid we are trying to get conscionable 1 ample vessel and person everyone share, ” said Turnipseed.
Point City Drugs has a adjacent narration with the West Point Pediatric clinic.
and that the 2 are moving intimately unneurotic to combat this issue.
” We bash person a bully narration with the pediatric session adjacent doorway truthful sometimes they adjacent telephone successful the greeting and accidental what bash you guys person successful banal and we volition accidental we’ve got this cause and this cause and they volition accidental okay. We are some trying to assistance each different retired and get the patients what they need, ” said Turnipseed.
While the pharmacy is receiving medicine she says that suppliers are doubling the terms of immoderate medicines.
They program to upwind the shortages for the abbreviated term.
” We’ve got immoderate suppliers saying that it volition beryllium mid to precocious February, we person immoderate that accidental January earlier they get the medications in. I anticipation it’s not that long. If it is we volition conscionable bash the champion we tin with what we have,” said Turnipseed.
Turnipseed says that her pharmacy has adjacent compounded medicine to marque alternatives for children if needed
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She says they person adjacent tried to amusement younger patients however to swallow pill capsules truthful that they tin get the medicine
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