LLoyd's Remedies: Gray, Louisiana

The art of preparing medications dates back to the origins of
pharmacy. At LLOYD’S REMEDIES, we still practice the time
proven art of compounding using modern variations of the “mortar
and pestle” to prepare unique and individualized medications.
Working with your doctor, compounding allows our pharmacists to
customize the strength and dosage form of a medication according to individual needs. This may include making lozenges or preparing a drug that is no longer commercially available. Or it may involve changing a medication from a pill form into a penetrating skin cream, or adding flavors, or preparing a dye-free or preservative-free medication. The possibilities are endless. Pharmacist Lloyd Duplantis can formulate and prepare just about any kind of medicine specifically designed just for you. Our compounding services can enhance virtually any area of medicine including natural hormone replacement therapy, children’s dosage forms and flavors, capsule and suppository preparations, skin preparations, and medicated lozenges. Ask us how compounded medications can help you. Because every patient is different and has different needs, customized medications are a vital part of quality medical care.

Compounding Defined
A customized medication prepared by a pharmacist according to a doctor’s specifications to meet an individual patient need is a simple, basic definition of compounding. The preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device as the result of a practitioner, patient, pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice is a more detailed definition of compounding. Compounding also includes the preparation of drugs or devices in anticipation of prescription drug orders based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. Compounding pharmacists make medications from scratch using pure chemicals and powders.

The Need for Compounding
The basis of the profession of pharmacy has always been the “Triad” – the patient-physician-pharmacist relationship. Through this relationship, patient needs are determined and decisions are made about treatment regimens that may include a compounded medication – including but not limited to:

Medications that are not commercially available
Manufacturers must be assured that there will be a return on their investment when entering the marketplace with a drug product. Therefore, there are limited chemical forms, dosage forms, strengths, flavors and packaging sizes that are available for the physician to prescribe and the pharmacist to dispense. Compounding allows the physician to prescribe a custom-tailored medication that is not available commercially.
Medications that are not stable
Pharmacists prepare small quantities of a prescription more frequently to ensure stability of the product for its intended use.
Altered commercially available medications
Physicians prescribe a commercially available medication in a different dosage form to meet a specific patient need and ensure patient compliance. For example, a patient may be allergic to a preservative or dye in a manufactured product. Compounding pharmacists can prepare a dye-free or preservative-free dosage form. Some patients have difficulty swallowing a capsule and require a troche or lozenge. Many pediatric patients are non-compliant because their medications are bitter, but become compliant when the medication is flavored to their liking.

The Right and Responsibility of the Pharmacist to Compound
No other health care professional has studied chemical compatibilities and can prepare dosage forms to the degree that pharmacists have. Even when modern scientific technologies have produced new chemical entities, the ability of the pharmacist to combine one or more chemicals into a new preparation or process the existing dosage form into one that is better suited to the patient’s needs has remained the domain of the pharmacist. Compounding of medications by pharmacists is a long-standing and traditional part of pharmacy. The right – if not the obligation – to compound exists under the pharmacy laws of each of the fifty states and is regulated by each individual state Board of Pharmacy. States require that pharmacy schools must – as part of their core curriculum – instruct students on the compounding of pharmaceuticals.

We have many formulations that are highly effective in the areas of:

Pain and Sports medicine
We can compound topical anti-inflammatory medications to avoid gastric side effects and increase effectiveness to the site of inflammation and pain.
Pediatrics
We can flavor those hard to swallow antibiotic liquids. Flavors from bubble gum to watermelon are available.
Fertility
Progesterone Suppositories and creams as well as specific dosages of fertility medications can be formulated.
Customized Hormone Formulations
We specialize in working with you and your health care provider to customize products which can help with PMS, endometriosis, libido and during menopause.
Podiatry
From anti-fungal nail solutions to bone spur gels, we have a solution for your problem.
Dermatology
We compound cosmetic and other pharmaceutical quality creams, ointments, gels and solutions.

Lloyd’s Remedies
* 3696 West Main St. * Gray * Louisiana * 70359 *
* 985-872-4547 * Fax 985-580-0213 *
lloydrem@lloydsremedies.com
www.lloydsremedies.com