Calls to the Ontario Poison Centre for accidental painkiller overdoses in kids more than doubled during last year’s shortage of children’s Tylenol and Advil, a new study shows.
for accidental painkiller overdoses in kids more than doubled during last year’s shortage of children’s Tylenol and Advil, a new study shows — an episode that experts say highlights vulnerabilities in Canada’s drug supply, especially for children.
“As a clinical pharmacologist and someone who is married to a pediatrician, we had a difficult time trying to figure out how to divide adult doses,” said Zipursky, who practises at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. “And I figured that if we were having a hard time doing this, and my colleagues with young kids were having a hard time doing this, I can only imagine the impact on the greater Canadian population.
Before the kids’ painkiller shortage, the centre received a median of 44 calls a month for calls of this kind. During the shortage, that number more than doubled, to 107 calls monthly; calls about kids for all other reasons stayed the same. Even after adjusting for the season and the very high levels of viruses circulating at the time, the number of calls was significantly above what would be expected, the researchers found.
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