PROSPECT PARK, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Major pharmacies are limiting purchases of children's symptom alleviation medicine arsenic request skyrockets owed to a myriad of respiratory illnesses.
CVS and Walgreens person some instituted limits connected pediatric medicine purchases portion Rite Aid has listed respective medicines arsenic retired of banal and unavailable to acquisition online.
At Delmar Pharmacy, a privately owned pharmacy successful Folcrom, the telephone has been ringing disconnected the hook for medicine successful abbreviated supply.
"We're getting a batch of telephone calls. More telephone postulation due to the fact that radical are conscionable truthful discouraged going store to store," said Brian Walker, the owner.
His store has the medicine successful stock, however, the shelves are thin.
"You've got 2 respiratory infections, not to notation COVID. It's similar the cleanable tempest each astatine 1 time," helium said.
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association says request for these pediatric medicines is up 65% from this clip past year, but manufacturers accidental determination is not a shortage of medicine.
"They guarantee america determination is not a nationwide shortage, but determination are intermittent retired of stocks and that's wherefore immoderate retailers person started to bounds immoderate purchases," said Anita Brikman, the elder vice president of communications for CHPA.
CVS is allowing customers to bargain lone 2 children's symptom alleviation products astatine a clip in-store and online.
Wallgreens is limiting customers to six products online successful 1 purchase.
Rite Aid's website has listed respective pediatric medicines that are either retired of banal oregon not disposable online.
"They privation to forestall stocking up. Because if idiosyncratic purchases overmuch much than they need, that means different family, different kid mightiness not beryllium capable to get the medicines they need," said Brikman.
As customers spell store to store looking for medicine, Walker is reminding parents to support their section pharmacies successful mind.
"Check america out. Don't hide that we're present due to the fact that we whitethorn person precisely what you're looking for and a batch of times we're pulling that disconnected for parents," helium said.
Experts accidental if you person immoderate questions astir however overmuch medicine is due to bargain to get your kid done flu season, interaction your pediatrician.
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