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High street pharmacies are struggling to get hold of children's painkillers as a new wave of drugs shortages affects patients.
Warehouses are virtually empty of several types of liquid painkiller, including of best-known brand Calpol, leaving chemists scrambling for supplies.
Other everyday medicines including Lemsip and Gaviscon are also now hard to get hold of, said Dr Leyla Hannbeck, chief executive of the Association for Independent Multiple Pharmacies.
It comes just months after chemists experienced widespread shortages of children's versions of antibiotics, due in part to waves of the potentially deadly bug Strep A which swept the country over winter.
Dr Hannbeck, a practising pharmacist, said: 'Supplies of liquid paracetamol and ibuprofen, which are given to children to ease pain, are very low indeed.
Warehouses are virtually empty of several types of liquid painkiller, including of best-known brand Calpol, leaving chemists scrambling for supplies (file
