Wellspring Custom Pharmacy

Athletes who are facing an injury want to heal as fast, but as well, as they can. Compounding medications they need for their diagnosis can help them do just that. Using a customized medication will give you a safe yet effective way to get back to your active lifestyle. It’s important to understand what a compounding pharmacy does for starters. Compounding pharmacists prepare medications customized to an individual’s needs verses the standard drug formula. They are able to change things like dosage amounts, ingredients, and even how the medication is delivered. Combinations of medications can also be created which is beneficial to a patient who might need multiple medications for their injury. Those multiple prescriptions can be compounded into one convenient dosage. One of the most common reason for someone with a sport injury to use a compound version of their medication is they can be tailored to fit your body. Most of the time athletes are more lean, meaning more musc...

You’ve probably heard of compounding pharmacies, but maybe you aren’t sure what they do. You expect to walk into a pharmacy, pick up a prescription, and head on your way, but it isn’t always that simple. Sometimes you need a little change, and that’s where compounding comes in. In short, a compounding pharmacy creates medication tailored to you. Unique dosage and forms of delivery are two of the most requests. Local pharmacies are restricted to the commercial version of a drug, white compound pharmacies are able to create a dose that will work most effectively for your height, weight, and severity of condition. Have the option of how your medication is delivered gives a lot of patients peace of mind and is also handy for children. Commercial medications often only come in one form, but not everyone is able to use that one form. Having your liquid made into a cream, tablet into an ointment, or powder into a tablet can make it easier for you to be able to properly take your medi...

Compounding medication has a lot of benefits, especially when it comes down to giving the medications to children. As many parents can agree to, getting a child to take their medication can be a battle. From bad taste to not being in a form the child can take, compounding can help make giving medication easier. Changing the form a medication is given in is one of the top reasons children’s medication is sent to a compounding pharmacy. Swallowing tablets and capsules isn’t a skill they learn until they are older and close to school age. Often times there is a tradition medication that would benefit their illness but isn’t able to be given because of the form. Compounding the desired prescription can allow you to give it in an easier form, such as liquid, topical cream, or even gummies and lollipops for kids. Liquid medications that are easy to swallow but leave a bad taste can also have flavors added to help kids fight taking them at least a little less. One of the other e...