COMPOUNDING
Orchardview Healthrx offers a unique process called compounding.
Compounding is a technique used to adapt or change your drugs in order to best fit your medical and personal needs. Compounding is fundamental to the profession of pharmacy and was a standard means of providing prescription medications before drugs became mass-produced by the pharmaceutical industry.
Working closely with your physician, our process makes changes to your existing medication or helps develop customized medication to maximize its effect and produce better outcomes for you.
Apart from customized dosing, our Non-Sterile Compounding facility can also provide patients with alternate dosage options that may not be commercially available to best fit your lifestyle needs.
Pain Management
Dermatology
Dental
Atropine Eye Drops (Low Dose)
Pediatrics
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Compounding – Frequently Asked Questions
- Adjust the strength of a medication
- Avoid unwanted ingredients, such as dyes, preservatives, lactose, gluten, or sugar.
- Add flavor to make the medication more palatable
- Prepare medications using unique delivery systems. For patients who find it difficult to swallow a capsule, a compounding pharmacist may prepare the drug as a flavored liquid suspension instead. Other medication forms include topical gels or creams that can be absorbed through the skin, suppositories, or sublingual troches.
Compounding has been part of healthcare since the origins of pharmacy and is widely used today in all areas of the industry, from hospitals to nuclear medicine. Over the last few decades, compounding’s resurgence has benefited largely from advances in technology, quality control, and research methodology. The Food and Drug Administration has stated that compounded prescriptions are both ethical and legal as long as they are prescribed by a licensed practitioner for a specific patient and compounded by a licensed pharmacy. In addition, compounding is regulated by provincial boards of pharmacy.
Yes! Children and the elderly are often the types of patients who benefit most from compounding. It is common for parents to have a tough time getting their children to take medicine because of the taste. A compounding pharmacist can work directly with the physician and the patient to select a flavoring agent, such as bubblegum, grape, tutti-frutti, or vanilla butternut, which provides both an appropriate match for the medication’s properties and the patient’s taste preferences. Just think – no more wasting medicine when a cranky patient spits it out! (This applies to veterinary patients too!)
Compounding pharmacists also can help patients who experience chronic pain. For example, some arthritic patients cannot take certain medications due to gastrointestinal side effects. With a healthcare practitioner’s prescription, a compounding pharmacist may be able to provide these patients with anti-inflammatory or pain-relieving medications with topical preparations that can be absorbed through the skin. Compounded prescriptions frequently are used to ease pain, nausea, and other symptoms for hospice patients as well.