What are Customized Medications?
- Customized Medications are designed and compounded to fit a
patient's specific needs.
- The prescriber can be as creative as desired
- We make items that are not economically feasible for the large
manufacturers and therefore not commerically available.
What can be incorporated into these dosage
forms?
- Your personal formula can be used
- Starting with commerically available products as your idea
base, we can make prescriptions with:
- Alternate dosage forms
- Higher doses or strengths
- Lower doses or strengths
- "In-between" doses or strengths
- Preservative-free
- Sugar-free formulations
- Add ingredients to make combination drugs
- Add flavors
- Limited stability that does not qualify for commerical
manufacturing
- Remove ingredients from combination drugs
- Time-release factor
- Dosage form changes
- Add emollients
- Reduce irritants
- Pediatric formulations
- Geriatric formulations
- Veterinary formulations
What dosage forms are available for the customized
medications?
- Liquids can be made of medications only available
commercially as tablets or capsules:
- Solutions
- Suspensions
- Emulsions
- Suppositories & Enemas- For patients with
swallowing difficulty or for localized effects
- Troches (Lozenges)- in a variety of flavors
for patients with swallowing difficulty or for localized effects
- Capsules that are swallowed easier that commerical
tablets
- Time-release oral capsules
- Enteric-coated capsules
- Generic items not made commerically
- Nasal sprays/aerosols
- Sterile Opthalmic solutions & ointments
- Otic solutions & suspensions
- Dental solutions and gels
- Injectables
- Topical medications:
- Creams
- Ointments
- Solutions
- Lotions
- Pastes
- Powders
- Gels
- Soaks
- Vaginal creams, suppositories, inserts
- Medicated lip balms (flavored or unflavored)
- Urethral inserts
What are some sources for compounding ideas?
- New items or chemicals mentioned in your journals
- Discontinued items- we can still make them.
- Items not economically feasible to commerically manufacture
- Your own formulas
- Items for office use
Please contact us if you have any questions, either via the
web, via phone (907-488-8555), or by fax (907-488-8556).
