Veterinary Compounding
Customized Veterinary Compounding Needs
Pharmacists & Veterinarians working together to improve and maximize the therapeutic success and compliance of pets, exotics, wildlife, zoo animals, large & small animals, (and reducing the overall cost of animal care).
Veterinary preparations currently compounded:
- Alternate dosage forms
- Sterile injections
- Creams, ointments and lotions
- Ophthalmic preparations
- Discontinued medications
- Flavor specialization
- Sugar-free formulations
- Topical powders
- Transdermals
- Chewable flavored troches
- Otic solutions and non-aqueous suspensions
- Oral suspensions and paste
- Otic Insufflations
- Gels – topical/oral
- Rectal enemas
- Iontophoretic formulations
- Rectal suppositories
- Individualized concentrated doses
- Combination medications
- Medicated biscuits/treats
- Inhalation therapy
Potential Vet Needs:
- Flavoring dosage forms that make it easy, even fun, to dose an animal:
- Chocolate/peanut butter suspension for hyper insulin in ferrets
- Stool softener in beef flavored gelatin balls
- Good tasting marshmallow, liver, beef, chicken or fish flavored suspensions
- Custom strength medications for seizures, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, parasitic infections, appetite stimulation, etc
- Low dose, longer acting insulins
- Inhalation therapy with ultrasonic nebulizers to treat kennel cough for dogs
- Antidotes/treatments for accidental animal poisoning
- Vitamins and tonics
- NSAIDS transdermally to avoid GI tract irritation
- Anti-fungal inhalation for birds
- Discontinued, combination, custom formulated products
- Protective medicated coatings for wounds or stitches (coatings which are difficult to lick off)
- Transdermal, anti-inflammation gel for torn ligaments
- Hard-to-find medication for urinary tract incontinence
- Transdermal anti-motion sickness medicine which can be applied to outer ear surface
- Concentrated solutions for birds & reptiles, matching the dose according to the animal's size
- Injections and liquids for metal toxicities
- Combination or fortified ophthalmic formulas
- "Hairball" remedy for cats
- Custom shampoo to treat "rain-rot," a fungal infection in horses
