Chemists say global supply issues and increased demand behind lack of stock, but antibiotic substitutions are available
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Australian parents are struggling to find medicines for their children as cold and flu cases continue to rise this winter, according to health experts and practitioners.
As part of ongoing medicine shortages caused by global supply problems since the Covid pandemic, children’s medicine has become a “hotspot” in the last couple of weeks.
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