Serenity1Senior Contributor
Asthma medication hoarding covid-19😭
Iv kept my daughter home from schoo for a week because of Caron's virus.
There is no ventolin in any of the pharmacies & I am just so extremely worried - how can this happen. She has Viral Asthma & has been hospitalised four times in her life due to catching a normal cold virus & which triggers her asthma @& being unresponsive to her ventolin.
There is no preventor medication which prevents an asthma attach either. The chemist I spoke to said he is in the same position with his own grandkids not having ventolin. Her puffers run out in two months & her preventor was out of date -( because she only requires them during winter- so hasn't needed since last winter)
This is flaring my agorophbia so badly- I wake up in a panic & cry- I have to take her to the doctors to get a script for the asthma medication they don't have in stock- how could this happen-buying out toilet paper is one thing but hoarding asthma medication so there is not enough to go around for small children who have smaller airways which compromises their breathing. It's so selfish & unfair.
I am having anxiety about taking her to the doctors office because what if there is sick ppl the with virus who don't realise it yet & aren't showing symptoms & she gets ill.
I am having anxiety about taking her out of school because she will fall behind in her school work for sure but I cannot send her now -her health is more important. we have another child in her class whose mother is a nurse & works at the hospital & is exposed to everything & she said " it's just a matter of time until she gets it" so I can't risk exposing her to that.
feeling very scared & unsafe with everything going on 😭