What is Compounding? Glad You Asked

Compounding is when a pharmacist takes the ingredients needed to make a drug and create the drug himself. This may be done to create a drug that is not commercially available. It can also be done to eliminate a certain ingredient that comes in manufactured medication that is not needed by the patient or that the patient may be allergic to. A compounding Pharmacist can also change the from of the drug say from liquid to solid or to a cream.

The company that I met at the Healthy Trucking Summit 2012 was Dermatran who specializes in Topical Pain medication. Find them at Dermatran Health Solutions
(They don't have a video to explain, so I used this one.)

Compounding pain relief medications for drivers are a promising alternative because it can have less or no side affects of other traditional medications used to handle the same pains.

The compounded drugs mention most often at the summit were topical creams places on the area of the pain.

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