Many pet owners consider their four-legged, feathered, or otherwise non-human companions part of the family. For this reason, when pets become ill or develop medical conditions that require ongoing treatment, pet parents want to get them the best treatment available. Unfortunately, pets do not understand that they need to take their medication, and getting pets to take pills is often a trying endeavor that is often difficult and time-consuming. Many household pets simply refuse to swallow pills and are able to eat around medications that are hidden in their food. In addition, many pets require very specific dosages of medications that may not be available commercially, further frustrating the efforts of concerned pet owners.

A Compounding Pharmacy can Help

Pharmaceutical compounding is the practice of creating customized medications for patients and can be a huge benefit to pet owners that are having trouble getting their pets to take their medications. Many common human ailments appear in animals, including skin problems, respiratory infections, diabetes, eye infections, and cancer. A compounding pharmacy can create customized medications that your pet will love and can also create customized dosages that meet an animal’s specific needs. At Kress Specialty Apothecary, we can create custom medications for a wide variety of pets, including the following:

Our customized compounds can help pet owners make medication time easy and even help your pets enjoy taking their medication. For example, if your dog simply refuses to eat its pills, we can flavor a medication with meat or make it into a biscuit that make taking medicine seem more like a treat. Similarly, rather than using a welding glove to force-feed your cat medication, we can flavor it in such a way that your cat will enjoy taking its medication and save you from putting your furry friend through a traumatic experience. Our compounding pharmacists will work closely with your veterinarian to ensure that your pet gets the optimal dosage of its medication in a form that it will enjoy.

Stop into Kress Specialty Apothecary Today to Learn Our Compounding Options for Pets

Compounding pet medications can make meeting your pet’s healthcare needs significantly easier and improve the quality of care your pet receives. We also provide a full-service retail pharmacy, offer an in-house line of pharmaceutical products, and provide pharmacogenetic testing. To learn more about how we can help you, call or visit Kress Specialty Apothecary today.

When One Size Does Not Fit All

The “one size fits all” nature of many commercially manufactured drugs does not actually fit all patients’ needs. Compounding, as both an art and science, allows pharmacists to create medications tailored to meet a patient’s specific needs. When the strength, concentration, or dosage an individual desires is not commercially available, they can work with a pharmacist to design a customized medication. Based on the practitioner’s prescription, one or more active ingredients are combined in the exact form a patient requires.

At one time, all prescriptions were compounded. However, with the advent of mass drug manufacturing in the mid 20^th century, compounding declined and pharmacists became dispenser of “cookie-cutter” drugs.  The art of compounding has experienced a reemergence in recent years due to modern technology, innovation techniques, and research.

Kress Specialty Apothecary is a compounding pharmacy dedicated to providing our patients with high-quality, personalized treatments. As a compounding pharmacy, we will work with you and your practitioner to formulate combinations of pharmaceutical-grade ingredients into various dosage forms. We treat a variety of medical conditions, including pain, pediatric, domestic and exotic pets, sports injuries, dental, and podiatry.

Here are some of the benefits of compounding that Kress can offer you:

• Compounding can make medications easier to use. For patients who have difficulty swallowing pills, medications can be compounded into specific dosage forms such as liquids, creams, lozenges, gels, and suppositories.

• Some medicine has a very unpleasant taste. At Kress Specialty Apothecary, our pharmacists can customize your prescription in the flavor of your choice. If you have young children, or even pets, that refuse to take their medications, we have a variety of flavors that will make them taste better and make medication time easier for your child—and you.

• Commercially manufactured medication may contain ingredients that patients have allergies or sensitivity to, such as gluten, sugar, dyes, lactose, and preservatives. Our pharmacists at Kress Specialty Apothecary can create a personalized formula to provide you with the right treatment you need while leaving out the problematic ingredient.

• Large pharmaceutical manufacturers will often discontinue a medication when not enough patients are taking it. But what happens to the hundreds, or thousands, of patients that still may need it? Compounding allows pharmacists to re-create discontinued drugs, so the people who need it can still have it.

• If you take multiple prescriptions they may be able to be combined into a single dosage form.

Call Kress Specialty Apothecary to find out more information about our pharmacy services in New Jersey 856-323-8723.