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Compounding Pharmacy is the long-standing process of mixing drugs by a pharmacist or physician to fit the unique needs of a patient. For example, a patient allergic to the dyes used in a pill can obtain a doctor’s prescription for the necessary medicine to be compounded without the offending dye. Each compounded prescription is hand made from the highest quality chemicals and made by pharmacists that specialize in formulating drugs. Yuvanesse Pharmacy is the only premier compounding pharmacy in India. We are dedicated to providing both patients and physicians with the highest quality products and service. |
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History :
The art of pharmaceutical compounding began with the birth of the first humans. All ancient hunter-gatherer societies had some knowledge of the medicinal properties of the animals, plants, molds, fungus and bacteria as well as inorganic minerals within their environment.
Ancient civilizations utilized pharmaceutical compounding for religion, grooming, keeping them healthy well, treating the ill and preparing the dead. These ancient compounders produced the first oils from plants and animals. They discovered poisons and the antidotes. They made ointments for a wounded patients as well as perfumes for a customer.
The modern age of pharmacy compounding began in the nineteenth century with the isolation of various compounds from coal tar for the purpose of producing synthetic dyes. From this one natural product came the earliest antibacterial sulfa drugs, phenolic compounds made famous by Joseph Lister, and plastics.
With the discovery of penicillin and the modern marketing techniques and brand promotion, the drug manufacturing industry came of age. Pharmacists continued to compound most prescriptions until the early 1950’s when the majority of dispensed drugs came directly from the large pharmaceutical companies.
From the 1950s to the 1980s pharmaceutical compounding became almost obsolete and a lost art. Pharmaceutical compounding continued losing favor as the big drug companies became larger and more powerful until they eventually dominated the practice of medicine. It was during this time that patients and physician became dissatisfied with the “one size fits all” attitude of the large Pharma companies. Physicians searching for drugs to treat their patients, lead to the reawakening of the ancient art of prescription compounding.
Today many pharmacists specialize in the ancient art of pharmaceutical compounding. In 2006 over 30 million compounded prescriptions were dispensed not counting all the admixtures and injectable drugs compounded in America’s hospitals. Pharmaceutical compounding been responsible for the health of millions of individual patients, has given birth to the modern pharmaceutical companies and continues to be a vital link in the search for new drugs and dosage forms.
There are now more than 1,500 compounding pharmacists throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and New Zealand. About 43,000 compounded prescriptions are dispensed daily,with about 3,500 doctors taking advantage of this in the United States and Australia.
Here in India, Yuvanesse Pharmacy is also serving a widespread group of doctors and patients to meet their unique needs.
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Uses of Compounding Pharmacy:
- Patients requiring limited dosage strengths and dosage forms (i.e., infants)
- Those with allergies to certain ingredients in manufactured drugs
- Veterinary medicine
- Pediatrics (i.e., making a medicine more palatable to children with flavor additives)
- Home health care
- Hospice patients
- Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
- Patients who need drugs that have been discontinued by pharmaceutical manufacturers because of low profitability
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Benefits of Compounding Pharmacy:
- Avoidance of dyes, preservative, fillers
- Palatable liquid medications
- Administrable dosage forms
- Avoidance of side effects
- Dose, dosage form, or medication not commercially available
- Combination or sustained release therapy to improve compliance
- Cost effective therapy
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