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.

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. Children and the elderly in particular may have difficulty with flavors of commercial medication. Compounding pharmacists can work directly with the physician and the patient or the patient’s family to select a more palatable flavor and mask any unpleasant aftertaste.

Having trouble finding that medicine that works for you? Pharmaceutical companies may stop making products for which there is limited demand. And limited demand is likely to occur when a newer and, sometimes, more effective medicine comes into the market. However some patients may respond better to the now commercially unavailable medicine. If we can obtain the medicine in its chemical form, we can compound the prescription.

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

Children vary in weight or size, compounding pharmacists can formulate the medication to the exact dose needed for the individual child.

There are many ways a compounding pharmacy can work with doctors, nurses and caregivers to assist the hospice patient. Hospice patients may need several medications that could be combined 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.

Eliminate the Medicine Taste
Trying to make a dog or cat swallow a tablet is not always the easiest thing to do. We can prepare medicines into easy-to-give flavored dosage forms that animals devour. Cats like tuna, dogs like beef. Various flavors are available for other animals.

Solving Dosage Problems
Commercial medicine may come in 100mg or 200mg tablets or capsules. A small kitten may need a dose of 15mg. We can make tuna flavored suspension containing 15mg per 1ml. It is dispensed with a medicine dropper so that the accurate dose is easily measured.

Medicine Availability
Animal medicine manufacturers often stop producing medicines and dosage forms for which there is little demand. There is still an occasional need for these products. With a physician's prescription, we can obtain the medicine and compound a prescription for the commercially unavailable product.