Amid shortage of medications, doctors advice parents to avoid giving expired medicines to children
Ottawa: Amidst shortage of children’s medications including Tylenol, doctors are advising parents to not give expired medicine to their sick children under any circumstances.
Apart from this, parents are also being asked to talk to trusted health professionals to find a solution to their children’s disease and their anxiety.
The families are also being advised not to buy medicines in panic and also to take care that there are many other options for the treatment of children. In such a chaotic environment, even those who actually need this drug can be harmed. Health Canada had earlier confirmed a deficiency of the children’s painkiller Tylenol in mid-August. These included liquid tylenol and chewable acetaminophen tablets for children.
According to Daniel Pace, chief pharmacist officer of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, the shortage of this drug has arisen due to increased demand.
He said that the production of this medicine is also being over-produced, but due to the high demand, there is shortage of this drug. Now the children have returned to the schools and this has made the parents afraid of getting many types of viruses to the children.
