Walgreens has above limits it had imposed recently for online purchases of children's over-the-counter fever reducing products.
The drugstore chain said improved subsidizes allowed it to lift its restriction of six products. The company had placed no limit on in-store purchases.
Last month both Walgreens and CVS Health release purchases of some over-the-counter children's medicines citing supply emanates. CVS Health put a two-product limit on all children's pain relief products bought above its pharmacies or online.
A sign is placed near the fragment for children's medicine, Monday, Dec.19, 2022 at a Walgreens, in New York, United States. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A CVS Health spokeswoman said Tuesday that limits on some children's medicines happened in place. She did not offer a time frame for when it much end.
An unusually fast start to the annual U.S. flu season, plus a spike in other respiratory illnesses, created a surge in examine for fever relievers and other products people can buy exclusive of a prescription.
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Shortages of medicines like Children's Tylenol developed, varying around the country and sometimes even within communities.
Experts who track medicine shortages said in December that the scrape could persist through the winter cold-and-flu season. But they distinguished that it should not last as long as spanking recent shortages of baby formula or prescription drugs.