Valley residents archer ABC15 there's a continued shortage of children's symptom alleviation medication.
"I'm frustrated. I am. I conscionable privation my lad to person the close medicine and you know, get what helium needs," says Jessica Allen, mother.
As a mother, Jessica Allen wants what's champion for her 8-year-old lad Liam. She says close now, that's not possible.
"I unrecorded successful New River, Arizona and we person to question 15 minutes oregon more, to the adjacent town, to get medicine... and each spot is retired of medicine," says Allen.
Jessica's household had a tummy bug and present presently has the flu.
She's hoping to dainty her lad with children's Tylenol chewables, but tells ABC15 she hasn't been capable to find it for the past 2 weeks.
"My lad has peculiar needs and helium doesn't needfully similar medicine, and it's precise hard for him. So, I person to find him the close thing, that tastes the close way," says Allen.
We archetypal heard astir a nationwide shortage of children's symptom relievers successful aboriginal December.
Now, days into the caller year, galore shelves are inactive empty.
ABC15 stopped by respective antithetic stores passim the Valley, seeing signs with point limits connected children's medicine and successful immoderate spots.
ABC15 was told Tylenol has been connected backorder for the past month.
Medmetrics is simply a pharmacy successful Chandle, uses its ain laboratory to compound specialized medications that are customized to each patient.
They are hoping to supply immoderate alleviation to those near without options.
"The person to person a medicine but, we could compound the equivalent dosage for children's Tylenol, the equivalent dosage for children's ibuprofen. Whether it's a pediatrician oregon doc they use, they tin telephone successful a medicine oregon nonstop it over," says Nathan Parker, pharmacist successful complaint astatine Medmetrics Family Pharmacy & Compounding.
They besides person a doc adjunct who works successful the pharmacy who tin assistance bash that arsenic well. Jessica is hoping that mightiness enactment for her, otherwise, she says she isn't giving up connected her search.
"It's not close and it's not just and my extremity is to conscionable fto these radical spot what we're going through... due to the fact that it is hard," says Allen.
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