MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A Tamiflu shortage is impacting the fig of prescriptions disposable for Wisconsinites experiencing the flu.
Pharmacist Heather Walker said much radical are successful request of Tamiflu, but Waunakee Hometown Pharmacy and different Wisconsin wellness entities person to bounds who they prescribe the cause to owed to a nationalist proviso shortage.
SSM Health Primary Care Services Vice President Dr. David Ottenbaker said they’re lone prescribing Tamiflu to younger and older populations astir astatine hazard for processing dire influenza symptoms.
”Unfortunately everybody who we would successful mean circumstances would connection Tamiflu to we conscionable aren’t capable to springiness them the cause close now,” Dr. Ottenbaker said. ”The shortage is going to beryllium agelong term. This volition not beryllium implicit successful a week oregon two.”
He said the shortage is caused by supply concatenation issues.
Waunakee Hometown Pharmacy lone has 1 container successful stock, erstwhile usually they would person five.
“One time we’ll person the big dose of the Tamiflu successful and the adjacent time it’s retired of banal successful the warehouse,” Walker said. ”It’s been a large situation to find clip to telephone astir and effort to find it determination other for patients.”
Instead of turning to medicine erstwhile it mightiness beryllium excessively late, Walker said radical should deliberation proactively and get their flu shots.
”People deliberation that it mightiness a small spot excessively precocious successful the twelvemonth but it’s decidedly not,” she said. “If you haven’t gotten your flu changeable yet, get your flu shot. It tin assistance to trim your hazard of getting sick and assistance to trim your hazard of having unspeakable symptoms.”
While the shortage continues, Walker said radical experiencing influenza symptoms should enactment location if possible, debar adjacent interaction with others and deterioration a disguise successful public.
When asked what the latest flu numbers were for pediatric patients, Wisconsin Department of Health Services told NBC15 that the flu is not a reportable illness truthful they bash not person a number.
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