Orchardview Healthrx offers a unique process called compounding.

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

Pain management is essential. At times, treating the underlying disease does not result in elimination of uncontrolled pain for patients.
In these instances, a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals will work together to help patients manage their chronic pain and continue to function with their families, friends and society. ​ Many factors can make pain management a challenge for healthcare professionals and patients alike.
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Dermatology

Certain dermatologic problems can be better managed using individualized therapies created by a compounding pharmacist at Orchardview HealthRx
Compounding pharmacists continue to provide alternatives and advantages in dermatologic care by widening the options available to physicians and patients. We can compound medications into comfortable to use creams or lotions- increasing your treatment compliance by making your prescription easier to administer.
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Dental

Working closely with dentists, Orchardview HealthRx compounding professionals prvide unique and individualized dental solutions for patients.
Medications are manufactured in a limited number of dosage strengths to satisfy the needs of most patients. Using pharmaceutical grade chemicals and specialized equipment, we compound medications for oral and dental applications in doses and dosage forms that are not commercially available.
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Atropine Eye Drops (Low Dose)

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is one of the most common vision problems in childhood.
Are you looking for compounded atropine eye drops? Myopia, or nearsightedness, is one of the most common vision problems in childhood. Kids with this condition can usually see things close up, but struggle to see things far away. While we don’t know the exact reason why, the incidence of myopia has been increasing steadily.
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Pediatrics

We may not have a solution to help them eat their broccoli, but we can help with their medication.
Children pose certain challenges when it comes to taking their medication - they may dislike the taste or texture, have difficulty swallowing a solid dosage form, or are fearful of taking an injection. Many of these challenges can be overcome by creating the right compound for pediatric use. By manipulating the texture or taste of a medication, a compounding pharmacist.
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Compounding – Frequently Asked Questions

With a physician’s consent, a compounding pharmacist can:
  • 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.
Is compounding legal? Is it safe?

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.

Can my child – or my elderly parent – take compounded medication?

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.

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