Compounding

Our Approach

Compounding has long been used by pharmacists as a basic pharmacy service. It is considered the art and science of customizing prescription medications based from the patients’ special needs. Compounding services are done by mixing specific ingredients together to produce a medication that characterizes a specific dosage and strength. This is a common resort by patients who are given medicine prescriptions not sold in the market.

Long before the emergence of mass-produced medications and drugs, almost all prescriptions are compounded. Not until the introduction of technology that evolved pharmacy to become a mere medicine closet as what is the most misconceived notion today. Some pharmacists, on the other hand, are no longer trained to do compounding. This generalization of the patients’ needs cause some of these demands to be met halfway. The same applies that not all pharmacy centers nowadays don’t offer compounding services.

At Sherman Pharmacy, we believe in the importance of compounding and the basic role it plays in meeting the healthcare needs of every patient. We offer the following specialty medication services as listed below. Please click on each item to learn more about them.

Anti-Aging / Cosmeceutical Compounding

Beauty has always been a confidence factor. Your years of experience, though doesn’t have to show in those lines and wrinkles. Stay beautiful!

There are a variety of factors that cause skin aging. Among the long list, stress, poor nutrition, and an unhealthy lifestyle are the most common. While some of these are usually inevitable, you also have the option of gearing yourself with an effective weapon in this aging battle.

Acne creams, bleaching agents, anti-aging treatments, and wart ointments are just some of the most requested compounds we receive from our clients. Through innovative compounding knowledge, we can customize a wide variety of skin care products using the safest and most natural ingredients.

We stay on top of cutting edge dermatology and skin care by creating the most unique, secure, and effective products. We can prepare dermatological compounding medications in these forms:

  • Occlusive Pastes
  • Ointments & Lotions
  • Liquid Solutions
  • Topical Gels & Cream

Dental Compounding

Compounding is the process of artfully mixing medical elements to meet the right, specialized prescription of a patient. Dental compounding can be requested by dentists to aid them in their daily dental practice. 

Most Commonly Prescribed:
  • Carbamide Peroxide (bleach gels)
  • Electrolyte Troches for dry mouth
  • Ketoprofen 2% oral gel
  • Chlorhexidine 0.12% rinse (flavored and free of alcohol)
  • Deoxy DG2 0.2% (cold sore cream)
  • Triamcinolone 0.2% Mouth Rinse, (flavored and effective for canker sores)
  • Lidocaine 4% mucosal bandage
  • Tetracaine 0.5% (a flavored solution that comes in a spray bottle for use at the office)
  • Electrolyte Troches (dry mouth relief)

Anesthetics

  • Eugenol
  • Benzociane
  • Bupivicaine
  • Chlorbutanol
  • Prilocaine
  • Tetracaine
  • Dyclonine
  • Lidocaine

Anti-biotics / Anti-viral Dosage:

  • Mucosal Bandage
  • Gels
  • Troches
  • Rinses Or Gargles
  • Freezer Pops
  • Lip Balms

Dosages for Dentists:

  • Mucosal Bandages
  • Throat Sprays
  • Lollipops
  • Mouth Gels
  • Mouth Washes
  • Toothpaste
  • Lip Balms

Burning Mouth Syndrome

  • Clonazepam 0.25mg Troche
  • Nsaids And Tricyclics
  • Capsaicin Troche
  • Misoprostol

Flavor Compounding

Convincing a little child or your pet to take his or her medication can sometimes be very challenging. It is undeniable how some medicines can taste really bad or bitter. No wonder they seem unpalatable that children would readily recoil right after just seeing the bottle or tablet in front of them.

Sherman Pharmacy offers a solution for this predicament in the form of flavor compounding. Compounding allows the modification of drugs according to flavor, form, color and even ingredients. In this case, you can have the drug customized to ensure they will be taken without hesitation by the recipient, considering the latter’s unique needs, likes and dislikes.

Flavor Compounding can be made available to both adults and children.
Changing the flavor of the medication is by far one of the first recourse actions that compounding technicians often think of at first. The main advantage of this action is that it is relatively easier to do compared to swapping ingredients. As long as the pharmacy has the available flavors requested by the client plus the necessary tools, the entire process should come easily.

Flavor compounding is often indicated for pediatric clients. We all know how kids’ taste buds can behave. It is just so hard to control them when you know all kids can think of are sweets, sweets and nothing but sweets. Sherman Pharmacy has a wide variety of flavorings to choose from to match your little one’s favorites and preferences. Our choices can include chocolate, watermelon, bubble gum and many more!

Changing flavors can promote better regimen compliance and at the same time, reduce the occurrence of repulsive reactions such as nausea and vomiting. Flavors effectively mask the bitter taste of the medicines without affecting its potency and composition. Rest assured that our compounding technicians will do what it takes to guarantee your medication’s stability.

Flavor Compounding is also applicable to animals. 
We take care of our pets as we would our very own family members. To respect their rights, we make sure measures and treatments to promote their health are highly available. One of these would be the wide variety of medications, including compounding services.

Some animals like cats and dogs, and even your exotic pets just can’t stand the taste of their own medicines. Thus, we alter the flavors of these products to promote recipient compliance and healing. Unlike pediatric clients who love sweets, we match the tastes depending on the type of animal there is. Dogs and cats, for instance, would deeply appreciate a chicken-flavored drug.

Available flavors may include beef, cheese, liver and fish. We also offer sweeter ones like cherry, carrot and apple flavors for animals who love them such as horses. We work closely with a veterinarian to determine the common preferences of animals to enhance the efficacy of each product we give.

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Imbalanced hormones are never a good thing. Everyone goes through puberty and we understand it can result to stong reactions in the body affecting your emotions and functions. Luckily, Compounded Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has given light to the restoration of normal bodily responses.

HRT is more commonly prescribed to lessen menopausal symptoms. It can also be considered as primary treatments for women who are aging.

Our experienced compounding pharmacists provide hormone assessments and create a personalized treatment plan for woman, giving her dosages (prescribed by a physician) that come in forms of:

  • Capsules
  • Sublingual drops or troches
  • Topical or vaginal creams, foams, or gels
  • Suppositories

Compounded Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) addresses conditions such as:

  • Fibrocystic Breasts
  • Sleep Struggles
  • Sexual Intercourse Pains
  • Pre-Menstrual Syndrome
  • Hot Flashes
  • Irregular Menstrual Cycle
  • Irritability
  • Infertility
  • Post-Partum Depression
  • Weight Gain
  • Endometriosis
  • Vaginal Dryness

Hospice Compounding

For patients with terminal diseases at the last stages and when the goal is no longer curing them, hospice care is provided. This is a very difficult time for families and friends and that is why compassionate hospice care is important.

For patients with terminal diseases at the last stages and when the goal is no longer curing them, hospice care is provided. This is a very difficult time for families and friends and that is why compassionate hospice care is important.

Hospice care can involve administering medication to make the patient as comfortable and pain-free as possible. Hospice compounding can help create medication to control, relieve and manage the symptoms of the patient.

Every individual is unique and during this time, traditional medication may no longer an option or cause difficulty for the patient. In such cases, through hospice compounding, we can prepare medications in different forms such as but not limited to:

  • Topical medication
  • Rapid dissolve tablets
  • Lollipops
  • Suppositories
  • Oral liquids

Men’s Health Compounding

Men Health Compounding Pharmacy

We help treat dysfunctions and ailments such as:

  • Chronic Sinusitis
  • Joint Pain
  • Acid Reflux
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Prostate Cancer
  • Sports Injury
  • Erectile Dysfunction
  • Testosterone Replacement
  • Therapy
  • Anal Fissures
  • Weight Control

This is where specialty compounding plays its role. With individualized compounding for men’s health, we are able to address the right dosages, combine the correct ingredients and strength medication in capsules, tablets or topical creams that will help men conquer problems in health.

Some men are not always open to converse about their battles in health. Aging is a natural stage they go through that make them experience mood swings, memory loss, aggravation, low energy levels, depression, erectile dysfunction or weight loss.

Pain Management Compounding

Persistent pain is the main reason why adults in the United States experience disability. It was found that 1/3 Americans experience a kind of chronic pain. It can go on for months and months, often longer than the estimated phase of recovery proving to bring emotional and psychological damages to these adults. This is why compounded medication is a vital resource to overcome chronic struggles.

The list below are some pain conditions that can be alleviated using compounded medication:

  • Arthritis
  • Tennis Elbow
  • Temporomandibular Disorders
  • Shoulder Pain
  • Back Pain
  • Ankle Pain
  • Post Herpetic Neuralgia
  • Knee Pain
  • Migraines
  • Muscle Spasms
  • Foot Pain
  • Gout
  • Head, Neck, and Facial Pain
  • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
  • Diabetic Neuropathy
  • Neuropathic Pain

Common pain management compounded medication include:

  • Piroxicam
  • Gabapentin
  • Concentrated capsules
  • Amitriptyline
  • Baclofen
  • Clonidine
  • Dexamethosone
  • Ketamine

Pediatric Compounding

Every parent share the difficulty of giving children medicine and the fuss that comes with it because most medicines don’t taste good. But medicine is one of the ways that they can get better. There are some ways to help and one of them is through pediatric compounding.

Pediatric compounding can flavor medications to help you let your children agree to take their medicine. It can also be used for a number of reasons such as modifying the strength of the dosage for your child or to substitute an ingredient that they may be allergic to and many more.

We can work with your child’s pediatrician to create prescribed medication for:

  • Head lice
  • Diaper rash
  • Respiratory disorders
  • Skin disorders
  • Cold sores
  • Pain relief, and many more

Sports Medicine Compounding

The wear and tear from exerting our body through sports is unavoidable. Aches, pains and bodily strains are almost always the result from exercising our muscles. Whether you’re on a workout, an athlete or a casual player, you can surely benefit from sports medicine compounding.

We already know that every person is unique and compounded medication can easily address that by being easily customized to suit our various needs. Innovative techniques and modern technology aids us here at Sherman Pharmacy to be able to provide customized medication such as but not limited to:

  • Sunblock creams
  • Lotions
  • Lip balms
  • Topical Antifungal medication
  • Special formulations for blisters/calluses

Veterinary Compounding

We consider our animal friends as family so naturally we want them to receive the highest level of care so they will get better as soon as possible. The practice of using compounded medication is a fast trending solution for veterinary problems.

Like us, animals can also have similar diseases to humans in the skin, eyes, ears, heart and many more. Giving medication to pets is a conundrum most pet owners have in agreement. It is not easy to let pets swallow their medicated pills so they resort to veterinary compounding to change the form in which the medicine can be easily taken by the animal.Sherman Pharmacy will work closely with you and your veterinarian so that your furry, winged, or tailed friend will be well again!
We cater to all types of animals such as but not limited to:

  • Cats
  • Dogs
  • Rabbits
  • Horses
  • Birds
  • Ferrets
  • Reptiles
  • Mice
  • Hamsters
  • Fishes
  • Even zoo animals!

Ask us now today about our veterinary compounding when drop by our store.

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