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What Is Compounded Medication And How Can One Get This Type Of Prescription
? Compounded medication is a formula that is the result of mixing different drugs and other ingredients together. It is used to create customized medication designed specifically for an individual patient and their precise medical needs. These needs vary and may include changing the form from a pill to liquid, gel, or trans-dermal patch. Sometimes a flavoring agent might be added for those who find swallowing pills difficult.
Many patients have allergies to some of the ingredients to over the...
Utilizing a Compounding Pharmacy for Your Podiatry Care
Podiatrists and general practitioners prescribe medications for inflammation, blisters, pain, wound care, infections and disease in your feet. For many patients, however, commonly used injections or transdermal medications are impossible because of allergic reactions and health complications. Compounding pharmacies can fill custom prescriptions for these patients, relieving the pain and discomfort.
People with diabetes are at high risk for cracked skin, sores and ulcers on their feet - in...
Compounding Pharmacies Are A Good Resource For Sports Medicine Treatments
Athletes often require medical care that is outside of the needs of most of the population. Because of the training regimens, injuries are more common. Compounding pharmacies are able to work with physicians, patients and athletic trainers to provide custom medications for patients with a variety of medical issues. For those with sports injuries, these pharmacies can provide custom medications for each individual athlete based on their weight and musculature, the sport they participate in...
From Dentistry to Wound Care The Multiple Uses of Compound Medicines
Custom-made prescriptions may be the next big thing in health care, but the practice of compounding pharmaceuticals dates back to our earliest use of medicine. As professionals recognize the need for individualized healthcare, custom medical mixtures are again becoming available for almost any medical condition imaginable, including dental problems, hormonal and wound care treatments. All of these prescriptions can be filled by compounding pharmacies.
In the 1950s, with the rise of mass...
Allergic Reactions To Inactive Ingredients In Drugs Can Be Avoided With Compounded Medication
A compounding pharmacy may sound like it belongs to a bygone era. Even so, as more and more evidence shows custom-made prescriptions cause fewer medication allergies than their generic equivalents, consumers are beginning to take a second look. This is especially true now that insurance companies actively direct patients to ask for generic drug equivalents to name brands in order to keep down the overall costs to the carriers.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine explains that allergies to...
What Are Transdermal Medications And What Are The Uses And Benefits
? As the fields of science and medicine progress, researchers are constantly looking for ways to improve upon the current methods of administering medications. One method that has received quite a bit of publicity as of late is the transdermal delivery of medications. Doctors and scientists alike prize this form of medicinal administration for its lack of invasiveness, as well as its high level of efficacy.
Put simply, transdermal delivery allows drugs to be absorbed into the bloodstream...
Customized Pain Management Medications Can Be Developed by a Compounding Pharmacy
The need for pain management is responsible for the production of a substantial proportion of all drugs manufactured in the world. With an aging population, and the increase in long-term health issues throughout the world, it appears that the need for more pain therapy will continue to increase over time. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly apparent that a one-size-fits-all approach to medication simply does not work for all patients. Clinically trained pharmacists who specialize in...
Physicians and Naturopaths Turn to Compounding Pharmacies for Custom Pain Management Solutions
For people battling with persistent pain whether as a result of an injury or some debilitating condition such as neuropathy or rheumatoid arthritis, effective pain management can help enhance their quality of life. However, rather than prescribe a heavy, potentially addictive narcotic, such as morphine, doctors and naturopaths may send a patient to a compounding (aka specialist) pharmacy rather than a conventional apothecary to fill their prescriptions. A growing number of traditional and...
Planning Your Move When You Have Small Children
Spending time with your children before a major life change is crucial. By its nature, moving is a stressful time for a family and because small children quickly sense the stress levels of their parents, especially if it is running high, it is important to alleviate stress as much as possible. If parents can remain calm, their children will also be calm.
Before the move, it is important for the parents to explain what will be happening and to assure their children that things are going to be...
Troche Delivery of Pharmaceutical Hormones is Effective Available from Compounding Pharmacies
In the words of Mary Poppins, Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But so do gels, skin patches and troches.
The first two delivery methods are probably familiar to most; however, troches may not. A troche is a small lozenge containing bio-identical hormones that is placed between the cheek and gum and dissolves in around 30 minutes. This emulates how the body circulates and processes its own naturally produced hormones.
Troches are produced by a compounding pharmacy, which...
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