All pet owners have struggled with getting Fido and Fluffy to swallow medications. Dogs hate having solutions squirted in their mouth and cats are notorious for eating around pills buried in their food. However, animals love treats! Giving your pup a tasty biscuit instead of his medicine would be a welcome change for you and your furry friend. Often, humans and animals have variations of the same diseases, including heart conditions, skin rashes, eye or ear infections, cancer and diabetes. Pet medications present a unique problem because an owner cannot explain why this small, bad tasting pill will make the pet’s aches and pains disappear. Compounding is often the best way to deal with your pet pill taking woes. Currently, compounding pharmacies are working with veterinarians to make sure your pet gets the right amount of medication and will actually take it. Pharmacists are not just making tasty treats for cats and dogs, but they can create easy to take medicines for birds, ferrets, reptiles and more. Your avian friends can choose from banana, grape and honey flavors, while your felines will enjoy butterscotch and salmon. Dogs will chow down on their bacon and liver flavored medications while ferrets can snack on apple and Tutti Frutti treats that heal their illnesses. Veterinarians that have established relationships with compounding pharmacies can even ask them to special order a flavor just for your pet. The biggest advantage with flavored medications is your pet’s perception of them. The medication is no longer a foreign object the animal does not understand. Instead, the healing medication is disguised as a treat. This makes your pet happy because it can identify what it is supposed to eat and you are happy because your animal is on its way to healing. Compounding also allows for previously discontinued medications to be made for your pet. If you know that medication has worked in the past, yet was discontinued by the commercial company that made it, a compounding pharmacist can create the appropriate dosage strength for your pets’ specific needs. Dosage issues are easily solved at a compounding pharmacy. Just like humans, pets are individual and unique. They come in different shapes and sizes, which mean commercially available medications are often inappropriate for your pet. Pharmacists can create doses in the exact amount of medicine your pet needs. Commercial medications come in standard sizes, but your 80 pound Golden Retriever will not take the same dose as a six pound Yorkie. Creating specific doses allows the pharmacist to add flavoring as well as ensure the correct amount of medication is included in each treat. Compounding ends the guessing game of whether there is too much or too little medication being administered to your pet based on its size and condition. Compounding allows pharmacists to combine doses into one treat. If your pet needs two or three different medications, your pharmacist can mix them all into one easy to eat treat. At last, the days of struggling to give your pet multiple doses are over.
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Any pet owner knows giving pills to an animal is no small task. Compounding can make any medication easier to swallow.
Thomas Mullaney is the author of this article on Compounding Pharmacy. Find more information about Compounding Pharmacies here.
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