| Compounding a prescription specifically to a unique | | | | the specific medical needs of individual patients who |
| patient's needs can be easy or complex -- depending | | | | may react negatively to commercial medications or |
| on that patient's needs. A compounded prescription | | | | have special needs. It isn't a new drug -- just a |
| can be be something as simple as a pill crushed in a | | | | modification of an existing one. |
| mortar and pestle to create a liquid solution, or as | | | | A compounded prescription can take many forms: |
| remarkable as a transdermal cream that can be | | | | A Different Dosage Strength. Pills generally only come |
| rubbed on the skin. Every year, compounding | | | | in a set number of dosage strengths, and if you need |
| pharmacists learn more and more about their trade, | | | | something that isn't commercially available, you may |
| and compounded prescriptions become more and | | | | think you're out of luck. But a compounded prescription |
| more useful to the patients who need them. | | | | can address this problem easily -- compounding |
| What's a compounded prescription, you ask? It's | | | | pharmacists regularly create specific dosage strengths |
| medicine that's been altered from its original form to fit | | | | for specific customers. |