Patient Services

Allergy or Ingredient Sensitivity

Many patients are allergic to preservatives or dyes in standard drugs, or are lactose intolerant. A pharmacist can compound prescriptions that are preservative, dye, and lactose free.

Flavor or Form

Many patients may have difficulty taking medicine in the prescribed form. Working with your physician, we can change the strength of a medication, alter its form to make it easier to administer, or add a flavor to make it more palatable. Capsules can be hard to swallow, especially if a patient is in pain or experiencing severe nausea. Many medications can be made into a cream form that is absorbed directly through the skin thereby avoiding the need to swallow a capsule or even a liquid. Children and the elderly in particular may have difficulty with flavors of commercial medications. Our compounding pharmacists can work directly with the physician and patient, or the patient's family to select a palatable flavor and eliminate any unpleasant aftertaste.

Discontinued Medications

Having trouble finding a particular medicine that works for you? Pharmaceutical companies may stop making products for which there is limited demand. Limited demand is likely to occur when a newer and sometimes more desirable drug comes to the market. Some patients may, however, respond better to the discontinued drug. If we can obtain the medicine in its chemical form, we can compound the prescription.

Pediatrics

Children are especially suited for custom compound prescriptions as commercially manufactured drug forms are often not easy for children to take. Dozens of flavors are available to compounding pharmacist who can enhance taste and color of medicine. A compounding pharmacists can also make medicine in a more easily taken or administered dosage form for children who have difficulty swallowing capsules or tablets.

Hospice

There are many ways a compounding pharmacy can work with doctors, nurses or caregivers to assist the hospice patient. Hospice patients may need several medications that could be compounded into one capsule. If the patient is unable to swallow, we can make transdermal medications to be applied topically or troches to be dissolved in the mouth.