All Blog Posts Tagged 'compounding' (3)

Medication can be formulated in many different ways: *pill *capsule *liquid *sublingual *drops *spray *lozenge *sucker *suppository *cream *gel *inhalent This post is going to talk frankly about suppositories and compounded suppositories. What is a suppository? A rectal suppository (or 'rectal rocket' some have dubbed them) is a special pill that is placed in the rectum to be absorbed instead of s… Continue

How would you like to take your medicine as a tasty liquid or sucker, or a patch, capsule, cream or suppository? It's easy when you get your medicine at a compounding pharmacy. Compounding pharmacies customize medicines by hand. Compounding is as much an art as a science. Like the pharmacies of 75, 100 yrs ago or back into biblical times, they follow your prescription and use individual ingredients to: ** provide you with a customized dosage, or special formulation such as a loz… Continue

Sometimes reinventing the wheel really can be better. Despite the poor recent response of the public to inhaled insulin, work continues as companies attempt to use this unique delivery system for other medications, including the migraine medicine MAP0004. I have posted in the WEGO Health migraine community a few times with reference to the fairly unknown improved response patients have had to well-known medications that are delivered in alternative ways. (Here is the link to the current discus… Continue