Formulated For Your Pet

You love your pets. Why not give them customized care? The practice of pharmacy compounding is becoming a popular solution to veterinary problems. Compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medications for patients. Its resurgence in recent years provides valuable benefits to today’s pet owners.

The Compounding Solution
Why should you consider compounding as a solution for your pet’s medical problems? That can be answered with another question: How hard is it to get your cat to swallow a pill. As any pet owner is well aware, animals may be extremely difficult to treat with medications. Cats are notorious for refusing to swallow a pill, and will usually eat right around one disguised in food. And dosages can be very tricky with dogs…an antibiotic that works for an 80 pound Golden retriever is far too much for a six-pound Yorkie to handle. Humans and their animals often have variations of the same diseases, including skin rashes, heart conditions, eye and ear infections, cancer and diabetes. Pet medications, though, present problems that often best deal with through compounding.

Flavored Medicine:
The pet who refuse to take medication because of the taste is often a prime opportunity for compounding. Cats don’t like to take pills, but they like tuna. Dogs don’t appreciate a traditional solution of Amoxicillin being squirted into their mouths, but they’ll gladly take when it’s part of a tasty biscuit or treat. By working closely with your veterinarian, a pharmacist can prepare medicines into easy-to-give flavored dosage forms that animals devour, whether your pet is a cat, dog ferret, bird, or snake. Solving dosage problems just like their owners, animals are individual and unique. That’s why you love them. They come in different shapes and sizes, and as a result, not commercially available medicines are appropriate for your pet. Commercial medicine often comes in large tablets or capsules of 100mg or more. But a small kitten may need a dose of only 15mg. That’s where compounding is especially helpful. In this situation, your veterinarian can prescribe a tuna flavored suspension with an amount that is exactly right for your pet’s size and condition.

Commercially Unavailable Medicine
From time to time, a manufacturer will discontinue a medication used in veterinary applications. When that medication has worked well for animals, a compounding pharmacist can obtain the pure bulk pharmaceutical and prepare a prescription for the discontinued product – a dosage strength and dose form appropriate for that pet’s needs.

A caring veterinarian working closely with a compounding pharmacist can result in the improved health and happiness of your pet.

Ask your veterinarian or pharmacist about compounded medications today.

As a pet owner, you want your pet to receive the highest quality of veterinary care. You want treatment as sophisticated and compassionate as you might receive yourself. You’re not alone. Today’s veterinarians realize that pet owners are more knowledgeable than in the pas, and expert a more advanced level of care.

Compounding can be very useful for veterinary use for your beloved pets. We can put them in dosage forms with flavors such as chicken and tuna to more easily give your pet the medicine it needs.