Compounding:
Our pharmacist can formulate and prepare just about any kind of medicine specifically designed just for you. Our compounding services can enhance virtually any area of medicine including natural hormone replacement therapy, children's dosage forms and flavours, capsules and suppository preparations, skin preparations, hospice formulations, lip balms, medicated lozenges, eye and ear drops and even inhalation therapies.
What is Compounding?
The science of compounding is an ageless art that combines the latest medical knowledge with state-of-the-art technology together to customize medications. Compounding is the foundation of the pharmacy profession and at one time, was the standard means of providing prescription medications before pharmaceuticals were produced in mass quantities by manufacturers. Our team of professionals have each received specialized training in the art and science of compounding that enables them to prepare customized medications from scratch. These medications are designed to meet the unique needs of the patient and or the physician.
Compounding pharmacists focus on providing innovative care that can call for a variety of different services such as changing the delivery system of a medication, preparing the prescription dye-free, sugar-free, or preservative free, compounding an eye drop in a sterile compounding lab, preparing flavored medications for veterinarians, providing personalized hormone therapy and custom-tailoring medication not commercially available. Compounders are known as the problem solvers of the industry.
The demand for professional compounding has increased as healthcare professionals and patients realize that the limited number of strengths and dosage forms that are commercially available do not meet the needs of many patients, and that these patients often have a better response to a customized dosage form that is "just what the doctor ordered".
Customized, compounded medications are a vital part of quality medical care because the needs of patients are different. The needs of a patient needs are determined by a physician, who chooses a treatment regimen that may include a compounded medication. Physicians often prescribe compounded medications for reasons that include (but are not limited to) the following situations:
Benefits of Compounding:
There are numerous benefits to compounding. Compounding a medication can be as simple as flavoring a medication or as complex as changing the delivery system of a medication from a tablet to a cream. One of the greatest benefits of compounding is that it allows the physician to respond to each person’s uniqueness in an individualized way. Physicians who prescribe compounds expand their treatment options by having access to new routes of administration, dosage strengths, customized pharmaceutical combinations, and by having the ability to develop new and potentially helpful compounds. Our pharmacy can help you with medications that are in short supply/back ordered, discontinued, unique or otherwise commercially unavailable and help you avoid interruption in patient care.
When is Compounding necessary?
•Medication needed in a strength that is not commercially available.
Unique dosage forms containing the best dose of medication for each individual can be compounded.
•Medications in dosage forms that are not commercially available, such as transdermal gels, troches and "chewies".
•Medication that contain preservatives, dyes and other potential allergens or sugar.
•Medications can be compounded to eliminate problem-causing agents such as dyes, sugar, lactose, or alcohol.
•Combinations of various compatible medications into a single dosage form for easier administration and improved compliance.
•Medications that are no longer commercially available, short listed, back ordered, discontinued or otherwise unavailable.
•Medications that provide a greater benefit from being combined.
•Medications that need to be flavored to be more tolerable.
•Medications that require the usual route of administration to be altered.
