The compounding pharmacists and the physicians work as a team to ensure the medicines are created for offering the optimal dose. With the technique of compounding, medications of any kind can be formulated, such as trans-dermal creams, solution suppositories or lozenges.
What are The Uses of Compounding Pharmacy?
Pain Management: With the help of compounding technique effective gels, capsule, suppositories, mouth rinses can be produced for the effective pain management in cancer, arthritis etc.
Skin Diseases: It is used in the treatment of an array of skin diseases such as eczema, alopecia, psoriasis, acne, alopecia etc.
Andropause: It is used in the treatment of Andropause. This is Androgen deficiency that affects aging males and is characterized by fatigue, weakness, osteoporosis etc.
Bio-identical Hormone Therapy: When aging women enter the menopause phase, they suffer from hormone-related problems such as hot flashes, weight gain, depression, osteoporosis etc. and they require the bio-identical hormone therapy. Bio-identical hormones can be compounded for the treatment of hormone-related problems.
What are the Benefits of Compounding Pharmacy?
When patients cannot take the commercially available medicine a certified pharmacist can create the medication by the method of compounding. There are several benefits of this technique, which are as follows:
Permits Access to the Discontinued Medications: Sometimes manufacturers discontinue the production of specific drugs and many patients who require that drug suffers due to its unavailability. It is in such situations a licensed pharmacist can recreate the medication by compounding.
Customize Medication For the Benefit of Patients: A pharmacist can customize a medication from scratch according to a specific pleasant flavor so that patients can easily have it. This is useful for the elderly or young patients who refuse to take bitter medicines.
Permits Alternate Form of Medication: Many times the mode of taking a specific medication needs to be altered for the benefit of patients. For instance, those who cannot swallow, their medicines have to be taken in the form of flavored liquid. Some medications may have to be compounded in cream or gel form for rapid absorption into the blood.
Recreating Medications With No Side Effects: Many patients can be intolerant to gluten, dyes, lactose etc. or can be allergic to the preservatives present in the commercially available drugs. In such cases, the pharmacist can compound a formula without those allergic ingredients to give the patient right treatment without side effects.
Thus for all these myriad benefits compound pharmacies has gained immense popularity. When in need you can try a compounded formulation and make most of the benefits this alternative form of medicine offers.
