WASHINGTON — Walgreens has ended limits it had imposed just 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 youngsters’s medicines citing provide points. CVS Well being put a two-product restrict on all youngsters’s ache reduction merchandise purchased by means of its pharmacies or on-line.
A CVS Well being spokeswoman mentioned Tuesday that limits on some youngsters's medicines stay in place. She didn't supply 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 diseases, created a surge in demand for fever relievers and different merchandise individuals should purchase with no prescription.
Shortages of medicines like Youngsters’s Tylenol developed, various across the nation and generally even inside communities.
Consultants who observe drugs shortages mentioned in December that the issue might 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 prescribed drugs.