Compounding!

When an individual is unable to take or use a commercially available medicine, costly problems may occur, such as avoidable physician and emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and lost time from school or work. We reduce this waste and improve our patient?s quality of life by compounding prescriptions ? making medicines into forms that people can use.

Our Mission

We help doctors solve these problems:

Dose Unavailable
A powerful medicine may be available only in 25mg and 50mg capsules. Yet a doctor may find that the best dose is 40mg. We can prepare a dosage form that will contain exactly this amount. The patient doesn?t have to take too much medicine, which is wasteful and could cause adverse effects, or too little medicine, which could be ineffective.

Dosage Form Unavailable
Medicines are often available only in tablets or capsules. But infants and individuals who have difficulty swallowing may require a liquid, suppository, or other dosage form. We can compound these dosage forms to contain the medicines people need.

Medicine Unavailable
Pharmaceutical companies may stop making products for which there is limited demand. Limited demand is likely to occur when a newer and sometimes, more effective medicine comes into the market. However, some patients may respond better to a discontinued medicine than to it?s newer counterpart. If we can obtain the medicine in it?s chemical form, we can compound a prescription to contain the amount of medicine in the discontinued product.

Medicine Tastes Bad
Each commercial product usually is available in only one flavour which some children and adults will find too objectionable and this may result in certain individuals not taking their prescribed medicine because of bad taste. This becomes a severe problem when a medicine must be taken for several months or years to control a chronic health problem. We can prepare dosage forms in flavours people like, can vary the flavour from time to time, and usually can mask any unpleasant aftertaste.

Known Allergy
Commercial medicines may contain flavours, preservatives, dyes, binders, and/or excipients. If a patient is allergic to any of these ingredients, taking or using that medicine could result in unpleasant or life-threatening consequences. We can prepare medicines that are free of materials to which a patient is known to be allergic.

Economic/Convenient Solutions
A patient may have a skin problem that does not respond to a single-ingredient prescription cream. The physician may want that patient to also use two other skin preparations. Using these medicines from separate containers tends to be inconvenient and costly. We can compound all three medicines into a base that contains the needed concentration of each, a medicine that is much more convenient to use.

 

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