Two of the largest US pharmacy chains are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicines amid constrained supplies and high demand.
CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., two of the largest US pharmacy chains, are limiting purchases of children’s pain-relief medicines amid constrained supplies and high demand.CVS is restricting shoppers to two products each for in-store and online purchases. Walgreens is limiting online orders to six products and isn’t setting limits for in-store purchases. Walmart Inc. isn’t placing any purchase limits, while Kroger Co.
“Due to increased demand and various supplier challenges, over-the-counter pediatric fever-reducing products are seeing constraint across the country,” Walgreens said in an email without offering more details on the supplier challenges. Pediatric medicines containing acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which relieve pain and reduce fever, have been hard to come by across the US and Canada since at least October as respiratory viruses spread. Rates of hospitalization for, and influenza have reached heights not seen in recent years. The drugs don’t kill the viruses, but they do relieve symptoms.
More US children had been hospitalized in 2022 for influenza as of Dec. 10 than in any other year since 2009, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. RSV hospitalizations are the highest since 2018, when the agency began tracking.
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