Compounding Pharmacy
A compounding pharmacy makes a medicine to order for one patient. The pharmacist mixes the active drug into a strength or a form that no company sells ready-made. Capsules, creams, vaginal preparations and liquids all come from compounding.
Restorative care works with the hormones the body makes itself. Isomolecular hormones matched to one woman's cycle often have no mass-made equal. That is where the pharmacist joins the clinician and the patient as a triad.
Compounded products do not carry the review that factory products carry. Some women choose them because they believe them to be safer.1 Quality rests on the single pharmacy. Clinicians work with pharmacists they know.
Cited in this entry
- Files JA, Ko MG, Pruthi S. Bioidentical hormone therapy. Mayo Clinic proceedings. 2011. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21531972/
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