Non-Sterile Compounding

Health Hero Pharmacy provides a variety of compounding services to patients throughout Michigan. Compounding services involve a licensed pharmacist or certified pharmacy technician combining, mixing, or altering the ingredients of medications to produce a new medication tailored to a patient’s specific needs according to their physician’s prescription. Compounded medications serve a medical need for patients who do not benefit from prescription drugs currently available on the market.

Compounding can be performed for the following purposes:

To increase the strength of a medication
To add a more pleasant flavor to a medication
To remove ingredients, such as dyes or gluten, that may present an allergy risk to patients
To alter the form of medication like capsules for patients who cannot swallow them.

While compounding is often used to treat humans, it also has a role in veterinary medicine. A veterinarian can prescribe compounded veterinary medications to make them more appealing to animals.

Hormone Compounding

Women often use hormone replacement therapy to treat unpleasant menopause symptoms like hot flashes. We can create compounded bioidentical hormones, which are chemically the same as hormones like estrogens, progestins, and androgens, which are made in the human body.