Compounding pharmacies work with you

Pharmacists work with you and your doctor to elevate the quality of your healthcare. By formulating medications specific to your needs, compounding pharmacists can be an integral part of your healthcare team. Compounding is especially valuable for patients with chronic ailments, reduced mobility, or sever pain. Sometimes something as simple as an easy-to-open bottle of aspirin can make all the difference in the world.

Compounding is more individualized

The strengths and dosages of your prescribed medications is unlikely to fit your body’s specific needs. Patients don’t need to cut pills in half or quarters, which is an inaccurate way of taking medication. Instead, your compounding pharmacist can prepare the medicine in a more convenient dose that’s exactly as much as you need.

Or say for example that you have difficulty swallowing pills. Here too, your compounding pharmacist makes life easier with liquids, chewables, or even lollipops for the kids.

Compounding offers more choices

If you or your children are allergic to dyes or flavorings used in conventional medicines, a compounding pharmacist can formulate your dose without any additives.

The opposite is also true! Often parents have trouble getting their kids to take medicine, especially things like antibiotics that must be administered daily. Your compounding pharmacist can offer a wide variety of flavors to help the medicine go down, everything from root beer to mango.

Is compounding the right choice for you?

If you have unique needs that can’t be filled by a conventional pharmacy, or you are looking for a more personal experience than chain drugstores can offer, it’s worth your time to consider a compounding pharmacist. For more information on compounding visit Medicine Centre Langley at:

Diabetes can cause a wide variety of health problems and one of the most common is nerve damage due to elevated blood glucose. Neuropathy makes a patient more susceptible to illnesses or infections and over time nerve damage can result in difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat and even impaired mental function.

Nerve damage, or neuropathy, can begin as numbness or the familiar “pins and needles” sensation, but can eventually lead to pain, loss of limb function, difficulty walking and a greater risk of injuries from falls.

Experts agree that the best way for diabetics to prevent nerve damage is through regular blood glucose monitoring and frequent check-ups with the doctor. There are a variety of medications available to treat the symptoms of neuropathy. If you are a diabetic and have tingling, numbness, or pain in your hands or feet, talk to your doctor about your choices.

Diabetic neuropathy can occur in different areas of the body. The most common is peripheral neuropathy – tingling, numbness or pain in the hands or feet. Some diabetics suffer from autonomic neuropathy which can cause problems with the digestive or urinary tract.

Symptoms of Diabetic Neuropathy

The symptoms of neuropathy vary from patient to patient. They might be severe, moderate, or mild and they may come on suddenly if a specific nerve is damaged. Diabetics should speak with their doctor if they experience any of the following symptoms:

• Numbness or tingling in the feet or legs
• Pain or burning in the legs, hands, arms, or feet
• Loss of feeling in extremities
• Severe pain on one side of the body, buttocks, or hips
• Dizziness or trouble concentrating
• Difficulty swallowing
• Sweating profusely