Posted on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 @ 03:35 PM
Acne typically appears on your face, neck, chest, back and shoulders, which are the areas of your skin with the largest number of functional oil glands. Teenage and adult acne can take months or years to treat successfully. Depending on its severity, acne can cause emotional distress and lead to scarring of the skin.
Acne treatments work by reducing oil production, speeding up skin cell turnover, fighting bacterial infection, reducing the inflammation or doing all four. With the right treatment, you can keep acne under control. But what's the best acne treatment for you? Many options are available, including prescription creams and antibiotics, which target the various causes of acne. But even with the wide range of acne treatments, chronic breakouts may still be difficult to treat.
That's why working with a compounding pharmacist, can be an essential part of successful treatment strategy. Prescription compounding allows specially trained pharmacists to "custom make" acne medications for an individual patient, based on that patient's unique needs and symptoms.
Bayview Pharmacy's compounding pharmacists have the capabilities to customize dermatological preparations that improve therapeutic outcomes, reduce side effects, and save patients time and money.
Compounding medications for dermatological diseases allows for...
- ...unique delivery vehicles to be utilzed (i.e. topical cream, scalp lotion, nail lacquer); which makes administering the medication easier, more pleasant, and potentially more effective
- ...medicines to be concentrated based on individual need, which maximizes therapeutic outcomes while reducing side effects
- ...multiple medications, that have been shown to have modest effects individually, to be combined to form a more potent customized medication. This may speed the healing process and save patients valuable time and money, eliminating needlessly switching from one therapy to the next
Examples of medications that the pharmacists at Bayview Pharmacy might custom make to treat acne, either together or as monotherapy, include salicylic acid, benzoyl peroxide, clindamycin, and tretinoin to name a few.
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