Let’s take a scenario. Your child is sick and you take him to the child specialist. The physician, after examining the patient, prescribes a medication. You get the medicine and come back home only to find that your kid does not take the medicine. Does it sound familiar? Let’s face it. It’s not just your child but almost all children have a trouble consuming a variety of today’s medicines. The fact is that you cannot actually blame them.

For a very long time, the therapeutic options for kids have been fairly restricted because the range of pediatric formulations available in the market is very limited. The dosage, dosage forms and flavors of many commercially available medications are mostly designed for adults. The form or the dosage is therefore, at times, incompatible with the requirements of young patients. With a view to increase the compatibility rate, we need to have a system which offers improved therapeutic outcomes and makes it simple for parents to give medication to their kids.
There is a solution and it is a special kind of pharmacy; pediatric compounding; a branch of compounding pharmacy. Here, Village Green Apothecary formulates customized medications for the patient in the form of topical gels for nausea and vomiting, balms and creams for diaper rash, or lollipops for sore throats. Each of these formulations requires a prescription. So make sure that your child specialist knows about these options available in the market. This will result in getting your child the right dose of medicine available in the form and flavor that he/she can consume without difficulty.
For young patients who find it difficult to ingest tablets or capsules, the same drug is available in an oral suspension or a liquid form as well. If the medicine tastes awful, the kid might refuse to take it. The variety of flavors can be used to put together a combination that children like.
Besides the dosage form and taste of the medicine, certain kids are sensitive to certain preservatives or fillers used in the drug. A compounding pharmacy can refrain from using these ingredients while preparing the medication to making it risk-free for the child.
This article outlines a few alternatives that can be exercised in order to help not just the patients but the physicians and parents of young children as well in taking medicines.
Special formulation for kids: Specially flavored mixtures, suspensions, chews or suppositories can be prepared for the kids to make their administration easier for the parents. The dose or the quantity of the medicine used can be customized to suit the kid’s requirements. When not restricted to doses only designed for adults, and altering the potency of each dose to suit the infant’s need will also play down any side effects.
Coating medicines with edible flavors: There are a number of palatable flavors like chocolate, raspberry, vanilla and bubblegum available in the market to camouflage the taste of the medicine. This will help in making the taste of the medicine pleasant to even the fussiest pallet, improve its quality, and makes the parent’s job a bit easy.
You must be curious to know what the basis of these formulations is. Well, many of the formulations used in various laboratories come from our chemical supplier, Professional Compounding Centers of America, who provides us with formulations, training, and education. It contains hundreds of formulations for infants and kids frequently used across the world. It includes oral, ophthalmic, rectal, and injectable products. The wealth of information that this text provides ensures that the formulations made for the pediatric patients will be reliable, consistent and dependable.
In addition to the formulations, this text also refers to the very important stability data specifically for these preparations which is generally not very easy to obtain.