Friday, August 15, 2014

Horse and Man Should you use a COMPOUNDING PHARMACY for your equine drugs? (More reports of compounded equine medications not working and make sure you read the comment also at end of article and what about the fact there is a commerically available so why is this being compounded questions)!!!

I never considered this…
Is a compounding pharmacy giving you exactly the same prescription as a regular FDA regulated pharmacy?
Hmmmmm.
Silly me.
Of course, if a compounding pharmacy isn’t controlled by the FDA, then there could be variation.
However, if I use a compounding pharmacy that my vet trusts, shouldn’t I trust it, too?
As it turns out, some drugs are known to be NOT AS EFFECTIVE when compounded…  I had no idea.

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