POISON PREVENTION TIPS:
- Place a free 1-800-222-1222 sticker on every phone in your home.
- Store household items in their original containers; NEVER in food containers such as milk cartons or jars.
- Read and follow directions carefully when using medicines and household products.
- Be aware of look-a-like products such as apple juice and pine cleaner.
- To avoid confusion, teach children to always ask before eating or drinking anything.
- Discontinue use of syrup of ipecac for home treatment as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. (Pediatrics 112 (5): 1182-1185).
- Use child-resistant and household products, but remember child-resistant packaging is not child proof. Keep potential poisons out of reach of children at all times.
What is a Compounding Pharmacist?
by Dr. Donna S. Barsky, R.Ph., D.Ph.
Is this a pharmacist who acts like a mad scientist? Are they just science geeks or someone that only works on research? Are they going to sell me snake oil?
Actually, pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medication. Compounding allows doctors and pharmacists to meet the special needs of patients.
The most important benefit compounding offers is for those patients who may have difficulty taking or responding to commercially available medications.
Some patients are allergic or sensitive to preservatives and dyes, or are non-compliant to standard drug strengths. Others may have a hard time swallowing a pill, or react adversely to medication’s taste, or their medication has been discontinued by the manufacturer.
Working with the patient’s physician, compounding pharmacists can prepare medications in one of several unique delivery systems that are not generally available from pharmaceutical companies. This might include an oral suspension for a product that is unstable in liquid for longer than 1 month, or an injectable medication in the prescribed dose, or a topical gel or cream that will allow the medication to be absorbed through the skin for patients who cannot or will not swallow, or even suppositories for rectal or vaginal use where the medication is best absorbed due to oral absorption difficulty. The physician may want several products in one ointment to get better results without the patient buying five different products. A compounding pharmacist can even make mouth troches to dissolve in the mouth, or lollipops and freezer pops for children. They will flavor medications to taste great, even for our smallest (or largest) patients like birds, kittens, rabbits, dogs, horses or any breed. We even make eye drops for animals.
What is the result? A way to take medication that helps increase patient compliance and, ultimately, the health related outcome. The compounding pharmacist is there to customize your medication to meet your needs.
What is a Good Pharmacy
by: Dr. Donna Barsky, D.Ph.
What do you think of when you hear the word pharmacy?
In our city, one can only imagine an extremely large chain store of many names. Inside you will find cosmetics, cards, photo processing, food, toys, candy, sometimes clothing, sunglasses and many other unrelated products.
But when you want healthcare in your life, is this truly what you want?
In most cases, we are looking for a place that can be our healthcare problem solvers. We want to go where there is wound care dressings like what you find in the physicians’ office or hospital post-operative care facilities.
A place where you can find solutions to splinting fingers, toes, or ankles, supports for backs, wrists or necks and where one can find orthopedic supplies for children and infants as well. We want to find a location where you can find the compression stockings to eliminate swelling after surgery or to prevent swelling on long airline flights.
We want to find a place where you can find ostomy and colostomy supplies, leg bags, bed bags and catheters galore to choose from. A supplier of blood pressure monitors with different sizes of cuffs, or nebulizers for breathing treatment and all the parts and pieces thereof.
A source of free blood glucose monitors who can also bill insurance or Medicare for the supplies and teach you how to use the product.
We want a major supplier of durable medical supplies like walkers, canes, crutches, roll-a-bouts, scooters and motorized and manual wheelchairs. We dream of a complete supplier of items that can make life easier for those who are debilitated or bed-ridden. And a person who can give you information and clues to easy healthcare if you are the care-giver in a world quite foreign to you.
A place that can even compound a different dosage form if the ready-made products are not what can be ingested as developed.
TexasStar Pharmacy accepts most insurance cards for manufactured products and we bill Medicare for equipment and diabetic shoes for you when you need.
Unlike the chains, of which we are all familiar, we only want to be your healthcare problem solver for all of your needs, not a cosmetic/toy/photo store with a pharmacy in the back.
Poison Prevention Tips
- Place a free 1-800-222-1222 sticker on every phone in your home.
- Store household items in their original containers; NEVER in food containers such as milk cartons or jars.
- Read and follow directions carefully when using medicines and household products.
- Be aware of look-a-like products such as apple juice and pine cleaner.
- To avoid confusion, teach children to always ask before eating or drinking anything.Discontinue use of syrup of ipecac for home treatment as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. (Pediatrics 112 (5): 1182-1185).
- Use child-resistant and household products, but remember child-resistant packaging is not child proof. Keep potential poisons out of reach of children at all times.
What is a Compounding Pharmacist
By Dr. Donna S. Barsky, R.Ph., D.Ph.
Is this a pharmacist who acts like a mad scientist? Are they just science geeks or someone that only works on research? Are they going to sell me snake oil?
Actually, pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing customized medication. Compounding allows doctors and pharmacists to meet the special needs of patients.
The most important benefit compounding offers is for those patients who may have difficulty taking or responding to commercially available medications.
Some patients are allergic or sensitive to preservatives and dyes, or are non-compliant to standard drug strengths. Others may have a hard time swallowing a pill, or react adversely to medication’s taste, or their medication has been discontinued by the manufacturer.
Working with the patient’s physician, compounding pharmacists can prepare medications in one of several unique delivery systems that are not generally available from pharmaceutical companies. This might include an oral suspension for a product that is unstable in liquid for longer than 1 month, or an injectable medication in the prescribed dose, or a topical gel or cream that will allow the medication to be absorbed through the skin for patients who cannot or will not swallow, or even suppositories for rectal or vaginal use where the medication is best absorbed due to oral absorption difficulty. The physician may want several products in one ointment to get better results without the patient buying five different products. A compounding pharmacist can even make mouth troches to dissolve in the mouth, or lollipops and freezer pops for children. They will flavor medications to taste great, even for our smallest (or largest) patients like birds, kittens, rabbits, dogs, horses or any breed. We even make eye drops for animals.
What is the result? A way to take medication that helps increase patient compliance and, ultimately, the health related outcome. The compounding pharmacist is there to customize your medication to meet your needs.
What is a Good Pharmacy
What do you think of when you hear the word pharmacy?In our city, one can only imagine an extremely large chain store of many names. Inside you will find cosmetics, cards, photo processing, food, toys, candy, sometimes clothing, sunglasses and many other unrelated products But when you want healthcare in your life, is this truly what you want?
In most cases, we are looking for a place that can be our healthcare problem solvers. We want to go where there is wound care dressings like what you find in the physicians’ office or hospital post-operative care facilities.
A place where you can find solutions to splinting fingers, toes, or ankles, supports for backs, wrists or necks and where one can find orthopedic supplies for children and infants as well. We want to find a location where you can find the compression stockings to eliminate swelling after surgery or to prevent swelling on long airline flights.
We want to find a place where you can find ostomy and colostomy supplies, leg bags, bed bags and catheters galore to choose from. A supplier of blood pressure monitors with different sizes of cuffs, or nebulizers for breathing treatment and all the parts and pieces thereof.
A source of free blood glucose monitors who can also bill insurance or Medicare for the supplies and teach you how to use the product.
We want a major supplier of durable medical supplies like walkers, canes, crutches, roll-a-bouts, scooters and motorized and manual wheelchairs. We dream of a complete supplier of items that can make life easier for those who are debilitated or bed-ridden. And a person who can give you information and clues to easy healthcare if you are the care-giver in a world quite foreign to you.
A place that can even compound a different dosage form if the ready-made products are not what can be ingested as developed.
TexasStar Pharmacy accepts most insurance cards for manufactured products and we bill Medicare for equipment and diabetic shoes for you when you need.
Unlike the chains, of which we are all familiar, we only want to be your healthcare problem solver for all of your needs, not a cosmetic/toy/photo store with a pharmacy in the back.
By: Dr. Donna Barsky, D.Ph.