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Compounding Prescriptions for Allergies

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How Can Compounding Help with Medication Allergies?

Compounding allows us to remove allergens from your medication, ensuring it meets your needs. Traditional prescriptions and over-the-counter medications often contain filler ingredients added for flavor, preservation, or color, which are unnecessary for the medicine’s effectiveness.

If you are allergic to any inactive ingredient, we can remove it while maintaining the intended therapeutic effect.

However, if you are allergic to the active ingredient, we cannot remove it from the medication.

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Inactive Ingredients

During the manufacturing process, inactive ingredients are often added to medications. While these ingredients don’t directly treat the intended illness, they serve other purposes:
  • Fillers: Increase bulk
  • Dyes: Change color
  • Binders: Hold together tablets.

Compounding allows us to remove these inactive ingredients entirely or replace them with more tolerable components.

Inactive Ingredients

Common Allergens in Medication

Allergic reactions to generic medications are not extremely common. However, when they do present themselves, they can limit your ability to take medication.

Allergic reactions can vary from mild rashes and itching to anaphylactic shock. Common ingredients include:
  • Corn
  • Egg
  • Dairy
  • Gelatin
  • Dyes
  • Shellfish
  • Nuts

Compounding makes removing these ingredients possible and allows the active ingredient to do its job without causing added adverse effects.

Common Allergens in Medication

Common Side Effects of Sensitivity to Medicine

Traditional and over-the-counter medications have a standard list of active and filler ingredients.

However, some patients may experience sensitivities or adverse reactions to added ingredients, such as rashes, diarrhea, itching, or hives.

A compounding pharmacy can develop customized medication if you are sensitive to any filler ingredient. By eliminating the ingredient that causes you harm, you may experience treatment without unwanted side effects.

Common Side Effects of Sensitivity to Medicine

Removing Harmful Ingredients for Newborns

Finding appropriate medication for newborn babies can be challenging. Their digestive systems are not fully developed, but they may still require medicine if they get sick.

Many commercially available medications contain sweeteners, which little ones cannot fully process.

We can create medications without sugars to help their tummies digest more efficiently, reducing the risk of side effects such as diarrhea.

Removing Harmful Ingredients for Newborns

How Do Compounding Pharmacies Remove Ingredients?

When compounding medications, our primary focus is the active ingredient responsible for treating illness symptoms.

We combine this active ingredient with a base that allows it to take effect efficiently, providing a better solution.

Sometimes, more than one active ingredient can be added, creating multi-medications. Once the formula is determined, we can also make your medication into different forms, such as:
  • Troches
  • Rapid dissolve tablets (RDTs)
  • Liquid
  • Nasal sprays
  • And more

We encourage you to ask about how compounding can improve your experience when taking your medication. Your questions are important to us and can help you better understand the benefits of compounded medications.

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Transferring your prescriptions is easy and fast! Call our two convenient locations in Littleton and Cherry Creek.

We offer free delivery, which is excellent for anyone who values convenience! As a local pharmacy, we provide personal and attentive service to our clients.

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