Compounding combines an ageless art with the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art technology, allowing specially trained professionals to prepare customized medications to meet each patient’s specific needs. Compounding is fundamental to the profession of pharmacy and was a standard means of providing prescription medications before drugs began to be produced in mass quantities by pharmaceutical manufacturers. The demand for professional compounding has increased as healthcare professionals and patients realize that the limited number of strengths and dosage forms that are commercially available do not meet the needs of many patients, and that these patients often have a better response to a customized dosage form that is “just what the doctor ordered”.

• Unique dosage forms containing the best dose of medication for each individual.
• Medications in dosage forms that are not commercially available, such as transdermal gels, troches, “chewies”, and lollipops.
• Medications free of problem-causing excipients such as dyes, sugar, lactose, or alcohol.
• Combinations of various compatible medications into a single dosage form for easier administration and improved compliance.
• Medications that are not commercially available.

Millions of patients have unique health needs that off-the-shelf manufactured medications cannot meet. For these patients, personalized medication solutions – prescribed by licensed practitioners and prepared by trained, licensed pharmacists – are the only way to better health.
Working with a physician, a compounding pharmacist can meet individual needs of children, adults and animals. Whether it’s an allergy to a dye or ingredient, a need for a different strength, or a preference for a different dosage form, compounding pharmacists provide patients with solutions to their medication needs.

• A pharmacist can combine several medications a patient is taking to increase compliance and reduce side effects; For example, elderly patients most of the time are on several medications and by compounding some medications to be used such as topically we are able to reduce many side effects of drugs taken otherwise systemically.
• When needed medications are discontinued by or generally unavailable from pharmaceutical companies, often because the medications are no longer profitable to manufacture.
• When the patient is allergic to certain preservatives, dyes or binders in available off-the-shelf medications.
• When treatment requires tailored dosage strengths for patients with unique needs (for example, an infant).
• When a patient cannot ingest the medication in its commercially available form and a pharmacist can prepare the medication in cream, ointments, liquid or other form that the patient can easily take.
• When medications require flavor additives to make them more palatable for some patients, most often, children.