Popular child asthma med pulled from store shelves

(CNN)– Doctors, nurses and parents are scrambling now that one of the most commonly prescribed childhood asthma medications is no longer being manufactured in the U.S.

Pharmaceutical company GSK took Flovent off the shelves on Jan.1 and replaced it with an identical generic version.

Ahead of the switch the company said this would help provide patients with potentially lower costs. But that hasn’t necessarily been the case.

Some insurance companies don’t cover the generic version while alternatives might not work for certain children or they can be hard to find.