Compounding Pharmacy

Compounding allows doctors and pharmacists to meet the special needs of patients. The most important benefit compounding offers is for those patients who may have difficulty taking or responding to commercially available medications. Some people are allergic or sensitive to preservatives and dyes, or are non-compliant to standard drug strengths. Others may have a hard time swallowing a pill, or react adversely to a medicine’s taste. Working with the patient’s physician, pharmacists can prepare medications in one of several unique delivery systems that are not generally available from pharmaceutical companies.

The result?
A way to take medicine that helps increase patient compliance.

Does your Pharmacist know how to use one of these?

Do your patients need customized medication delivery for their unique needs?

We can help solve your medication problems, if you give us a call:

Phone: 417-336-4701

What is Compounding & Benefits

An increasing number of patients’ are beginning to have unique health needs that manufactured prescription medications cannot effectively meet. For them, compounded and customized medications prescribed by their physician or veterinarian and created by their highly trained and licensed compounding pharmacist is the only way to improve their health.

Because every patient is unique and dynamic in their reaction to medical treatment, compounded and customized medications are a vital part of quality medical care. The basis of all quality healthcare is the “triad” of patient-physician-pharmacist relationship. The patient’s healthcare needs are diagnosed by the patient’s physician who chooses the appropriate treatment that may include a compounded medication.

A compounded medication may be appropriate when:

Oral Medications are too bitter to dispense without flavor additives to make them more palatable.
Commercially available medications cannot be ingested or absorbed by the patient.
Several medications may need to be combined to facilitate a more efficient dosing to increase patient compliance.
An oral medication cannot be absorbed and must be made into a topical transdermal absorbed through the skin.
A tablet must be changed to a liquid or other form that the patient can easily take.
The appropriate medication has been discontinued by the manufacturer or generally unavailable.
A patient is allergic to specific dyes, additives or preservatives.

Benefits

The art and science of preparing customized medications

Compounding permits physicians and pharmacists to address the unique needs of their patients. It offers patients the opportunity for better absorption or simplified dosing of medications in those who have difficulty swallowing or react adversely to manufactured medications. It allows many unique delivery systems to be available to all patients.

How to Write a Compounding Prescription

RX ____________________________
Compounded medication*

Generic name of active ingredient(s)/ Strength or dose

Dosage form ( Suppository, Transdermal, Gel, Troche…)

Quantity

Directions for Use

* prescription should begin with the phrase Compounded Medication