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Great Care, Delivered. Ask your veterinarian these questions about compounded medications.

Prescription compounding is a rapidly growing component of many veterinarians’ practices. This is in large part because relatively few drugs are manufactured just for veterinary use.

Questions to Ask Before Your Veterinarian Prescribes a Compounded Medication

• What can you tell me about compounded medications?
• Do you ever prescribe compounded medications for your patients? When?
• Is there a compounded preparation in a different dosage-form or flavor that would make it easier for me to give and for my pet to take its medicine?     
• If the drug my pet is now taking were taken off the market, is there an alternative way to continue its therapy?

Questions to Ask After Your Veterinarian Prescribes a Compounded Medication

• Do you recommend a specific compounding pharmacy to fill my pet’s prescription?  (If the answer is no: What factors should I consider when choosing a pharmacy to fill this prescription?)
• Why do you recommend that pharmacy?
• Does the pharmacy specialize in compounding?
• Does the pharmacy have a good safety record with making compounded preparations for pets?
• Does the pharmacy have systems in place to make sure compounded prescriptions are exactly as the veterinarian orders them?
• Does the pharmacy have proper facilities for making sterile prescriptions?

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	Bitter-Block—Using a proprietary process and food-grade materials, we coat each particle of medications before it's pressed into a tasty, chewable Gourmeds tablet. The soluble, temporary coating protects the taste buds from the bitterness of the medication while allowing the yummy chicken-flavor to do its job.
	Gourmeds—Gourmeds chewable tablets in natural chicken and fish flavors for dogs and cats and apple-molasses; peppermint and alfalfa flavors for horses.
	Granules—Compounded granules help to reduce the risk of chemical exposure to you, compared to powders. The amount of dust produced when administering the preparation is reduced, thereby helping to decrease the risk of exposure.
	Medi-Melts—Look like standard tablets, but are lightly compressed so they disintegrate rapidly on an animal's tongue, creating a paste that can't be rejected. For sicker animals that may have difficulty swallowing, or for animals that reject any medication, this may be the perfect solution for medication compliance and the tasty flavor makes it seem like a treat.
	Medi-Mints—Mint-flavored tablets for horses.
	POLOX-A-GEL—Stores as a liquid while refrigerated, resolves into a gel at room or body temperature so the preparation stays on the patient longer.
	Quad-Tabs—Now you can get up to four doses from each tablet.
	Tiny Tabs—Tiny, compressed tablets, perfect for difficult-to-administer or bitter-tasting medications.
	Twist-a-Dose—When oral medications fail and you need simple, accurate dosing every time.
	Twist-a-Taste—A different "twist" on oral gel applications.

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