Benefits of Using Specialized Compounding for Pediatrics in Providing Customized, Quality Medications
Benefits of Using Specialized Compounding for Paediatrics in Providing Customized, Quality Medications
This requires teamwork between the practitioner/physician, patient, and the compounding pharmacist. It also demands specific skills, training, and experience of the compounding pharmacist while using pharmaceutical grade ingredients to fill the prescription in the compounding lab to resolve complex and individual drug-related needs of the child.
Pediatric compounded medication is a route to help each child get the right medication without any side effects based on child’s various health conditions and unique needs such as skin, drug and food allergies, child’s preference to specific food habits, flavor (e.g. strawberry, vanilla, orange), dosage forms (e.g. lozenges, syrup, jelly), etc.
This requires teamwork between the practitioner/physician, patient, and the compounding pharmacist. It also demands specific skills, training, and experience of the compounding pharmacist while using pharmaceutical grade ingredients to fill the prescription in the compounding lab to resolve complex and individual drug-related needs of the child.
Here are a few cases/examples, when compounded medicines come very handy:
- Many times, a child between 6 to 11 years of age is not able to chew the oral tablets because of its size, texture, flavor, fear, and anxiety. Such cases, compounding medications can be of great help to customize the dosage delivery in specific forms as per the child’s requirements, for example, lozenges, suspensions, syrups, lollipops and solutions.
- For hard to cure diaper rash – when commercially available ointments and creams fail, ask Custom Health RX (customhealthrx.com, your only neighborhood compounding pharmacy) and our experienced compounding pharmacist will create customized diaper rash formulation with the right strength of child-friendly medications with aloe vera to suit your child’s skin and other health conditions.
- For children suffering from:
- Sensory Processing Disorders ((SPD) - a neurodevelopmental condition when sensory input(s) are inadequately received, detected, processed/understood and then sent as a stimulus to the environment) e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
and
- Behavioral Developmental Disorders
Commercially available tablets have various textures and flavored medications which may not be tolerated by children. A compounding pharmacist uses his / her knowledge to prepare dosages in various forms using different strength of the drugs to suit children complex needs – these include topical treatments (transdermal application), small capsules of different textures, sizes, and flavors, powder forms of medicines, lozenges, syrups, creams, ointments and many more.
- Food allergies: Sometimes children suffer from specific food allergies – e.g. soy, egg, prawn, cow’s milk, peanuts, wheat etc. Dietary restrictions may demand gluten-free food to meet their specific health conditions. When commercial medication is not available gluten-free, compounding medicines come extremely useful and effective without gluten base. Like this, for ketogenic diets among children (i.e. diets where low carbohydrate and high protein are needed), medicines are needed that are of zero to low carbohydrates (carb)– compounded medicines can very well meet these conditions.
- Other health conditions – e.g. asthma (children or kids who have breathing problems), diabetics, lung diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, compounding medicines are rescuers in meeting patient’s critical medical needs.
At Custom Health RX, we focus on each patient and think out of the box to produce customized medicines that are tasty, health-friendly, free from casein, gluten, artificial flavors, dyes, and preservatives. To know more and order today, fax your prescription to 734-667-4400. If you don’t have a prescription, you can still fill the short form and submit on our webpage – we will get back to you shortly.
To check out our other compounded offerings, please visit our home page, compounding pages.
We also offer orthomolecular and ayurvedic medicines. Ayurvedic medicines are completely natural, herbal and use immune supplements e.g. Neem, Turmeric (Haldi), Tulsi, Ashwagandha, Amla, Licorice / Multethi, etc.
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