Pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing personalized medications for patients.
Trained, member pharmacists can now personalize medicine for patients who need specific:
- Strengths;
- Dosage forms;
- Flavours;
- Ingredients excluded from medications due to allergies or other sensitivities.
Compounded medications are made based on a practitioners prescription in which individual ingredients are mixed together in the exact strength and dosage form required by the patient. This method allows the compounding pharmacist to work with the patient and the prescriber to customize a medication to meet the patient's specific needs.
Some disease area that require compounding are:
- Pain management
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Pediatric dosage forms and concentrations
- Allergy
Did you know?
Compounding pharmacies are types of pharmacies that prepare special medications by mixing (or compounding) raw ingredients. In the 1920's and 30's a majority of the medications were made by pharmacists for a specific patient. Today though, compounded prescriptions only represent about 1% of all prescription drugs.
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