Do you own a dog? How about a ferret, a rabbit, or a guinea pig? Is your best friend a cockatoo? Does your son carry an iguana in his pocket or your daughter stable a horse on a neighbor’s farm? Or maybe you are just permanent staff for the cat who owns your house. Pets…
Capsules Oral capsules may be used to combine multiple medications into one dose. Oral capsules can also be formulated to avoid common allergens such as dyes, lactose, gluten, and peanut oil. When specific products or product strengths are no longer commercially available, compounding is often the answer. Chewables Chewable forms may be appropriate for children…
The practice of pharmacy is defined in part by the capacity to prepare medications for patients. This practice of customizing medications for individual patient needs is called compounding. As late as the 1930’s, roughly half of all prescriptions were compounded, but during the 1950’s and 1960’s compounding declined as drug manufacturers offered more and more…