Par Yona Baron
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Pharmacy shelves are empty. And for the past few weeks, a new product has been missing.
THE Emla numbing patchesused to numb the skin before a medical procedure (injection, blood test, minor surgery, etc.) are increasingly difficult to find, much to the dismay of parents.
“It really doesn’t suit me. I have to have my baby vaccinated soon and I don’t want to run to all the pharmacies to find an anesthetic patch”, laments Justine, a mother residing in Vendée, toactu.fr.
“We are not on a vital product”
Users suffer, pharmacies too. But this rupture does not seem to be a priority next to the lack of certain drugs. For Florian Duval, incumbent pharmacist in Rennes, this situation is “annoying, but not alarming. «
We are not on a vital product and despite the shortages, it is not a disaster because there is the cream which also exists and which does not suffer from supply tensions. We’d rather find our antibiotics.
The reason for this tension is not yet known to date, confides Pierre-Olivier Variot, president of the union of community pharmacists (USPO) to actu.fr.
Four tips to reduce vaccine pain:
Apart from pain, babies also experience fear at the mere sight of a needle. In the absence of Emla patches, other tips can make this moment less terrible:
– Breastfeed the baby and hold him against you to reassure him and reduce the feeling of pain.
– Divert the attention so as not to concentrate on the sting.
– Not communicating your stress to your child.
– Give sugar water, which can help reduce the perception of pain.
An increasingly tense situation
For several months now, pharmacies have been faced with ruptures de stock and to supply voltages a long list of medications. If the lack of amoxicillin and paracetamol cause real problems, it is indeed all the drugs that are concerned. “There are about 4,000 drugs out of stock, which is equivalent to a 40% increase,” explains Pierre-Olivier Variot, president of the USPO.
In the eyes of Florian Duval, the situation on this subject is becoming more and more tense. “We were saved because we received large stocks of Doliprane, but some pharmacies only receive three a day. We have reached the point where we no longer know how to treat people. »
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