Baby formula has become increasingly difficult to find amid a massive, nationwide shortage.
There was already a supply chain issue impacting baby formula, and then a recall impacted the supply even further. But it's a bad idea to dilute formula to make it last longer, says Dr. Michael Anderson. He's a pediatric critical care physician at Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C.
Because supplies in her Freestone County community have been so low, Freeman has been making regular two-hour round trips from her home south of Corsicana to a Sam’s Club location in Waco to ensure that her son, 8-month-old Ryder, has the formula that he needs. “When you go in the store for days and there is no milk, and they keep telling you, ‘Oh, there is going to be milk this day. There is going to be milk this day,’ and you go and like, yeah, there is milk, but by the time you go to the store … there’s no milk," Freeman said."It’s bad."
The nationwide shortage is due in part to general supply chain problems, but it is more specifically tied to a safety recall and formula plant shutdown in connection to an outbreak of bacterial infections that resulted in four hospitalizations of infants and two deaths.
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