Walgreens ends buy limits on children’s fever medicines

This file photograph exhibits the entrance of a Walgreens retailer. Walgreens introduced they've lifted their restrictions on on-line purchases of youngsters's over-the-counter fever decreasing merchandise.(Credit score: Otisfrog/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

(AP) - Walgreens has ended limits it had imposed lately for on-line purchases of youngsters’s over-the-counter fever decreasing merchandise.

The pharmacy chain mentioned improved provides allowed it to carry its restriction of six merchandise. The corporate had positioned no restrict on in-store purchases.

Final month each Walgreens and CVS Well being restricted purchases of some over-the-counter kids’s medicines citing provide points. CVS Well being put a two-product restrict on all kids’s ache reduction merchandise purchased by means of its pharmacies or on-line.

A CVS Well being spokeswoman mentioned Tuesday that limits on some kids’s medicines stay in place. She didn't provide a time-frame for when it would finish.

An unusually quick begin to the annual U.S. flu season, plus a spike in different respiratory sicknesses, created a surge in demand for fever relievers and different merchandise individuals should buy with out a prescription.

Shortages of medicines like Youngsters’s Tylenol developed, various across the nation and typically even inside communities.

Specialists who monitor medication shortages mentioned in December that the issue may persist by means of the winter cold-and-flu season. However they famous that it mustn't final so long as different current shortages of child formulation or pharmaceuticals.