Tylenol Shortage 2022 Canada: The real reason for the Children’s Tylenol shortage
Kim Mackay has resorted to giving her 11-year-old son expired children’s Tylenol desperate to ease his pain. The 44-year-old mother and her husband scoured the aisles of at least 10 pharmacies in Vancouver and Burnaby in British Columbia in search of the pain medication for their child’s pancreatitis but could not find the product on shelves. Credit: TheStar.com After friends, also on the look out, came back empty-handed, Mackay posted a plea for help on Facebook. “I managed to get some expired Tylenol from somebody, and another person had gone down to the U.S. in the last month and brought back a big pack of Tylenol so I have that too,” Mackay said, adding that she currently has enough medicine for another week or so. After that, she’s resigned to repeating her search. “It has been stressful on top of my child’s illness but I’m grateful for the people who have helped,” Mackay said. Drugstores nationwide have been grappling since May with supply shortages of over-the-counter medication...