Customized Treatment Options

Occasionally, available manufactured drugs are not the best choice for the animals you treat.   In those times you may need to customize a prescription to meet the animal's needs.

The advantage of a compounded prescription is the same as every treatment alternative you have at hand. When treating you search for the best way to treat your patient's healthcare problems. Compounded medication is one possible answer.   It is one additional tool you have available to you.  

Many pharmacies will provide some compounding. Most will perform basic compounding - for example, combining two ointments into one preparation. The more complicated and time-consuming the procedure, the more likely it is to be performed only in specialized pharmacies.

Often, the equipment needed for complicated or sensitive compounding is expensive. For example, if the resulting compounded preparation must be sterile, a special air-filtering system will probably be required. In the case of higher-level sterile products, an entire room designed to meet special requirements as a "clean room" will be necessary.