What is compounding?
Pharmacy compounding is a highly specialised practice in which a qualified pharmacist combines, mixes, or alters ingredients in response to a prescription to create a medication tailored to the medical needs of an individual patient.
Pharmacy compounding serves a crucial public health need if a patient cannot be treated with a TGA-approved medication.
Some of the ways Compounding can help.
To Help With Compliance
- Children’s Preparations can be made more palatable
- Animal Medications can be reduced in size, put in flavoured dose forms or into transdermal creams
Reduce Side Effects
- Pain Management ~ topical high strength preparations can penetrate through the skin to have a local effect.
Individual Needs ~ not one size fits all, in particular;
- Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement ~ practitioners will draw on pathology and their knowledge to find the right balance.
- Amino Acids and Nutraceuticals ~ new medical testing can determine the biochemistry of different individuals to assist in finding a person’s requirements.
Hypo-allergenic
- Herbs, Vitamins and Minerals can be made without lactose, gluten and gelatin to assist with intolerances and allergies.
Unique Requirements
- Through a large range of suppliers both from Australia and Overseas we can access many different ingredients.
