There are several different types of medicine. If you are thinking about going to work for a pharmacy or you simply wish to know more about medications as a whole, then you should try reading some very beneficial material. Let us take a look at what compounding pharmacy and Bio Identical Hormone Replacement is.

For those who do not know, a compounding pharmacy or pharmacy compounding is when a pharmacist, a physician or a vet mix a variety of drugs that will work based off the what the patient needs. Of course, all compounding is done for medical reasons and can include changing a pills form into a liquid for such reasons as allergies or to achieve the dose needed to at. And of course they can also add flavoring for children or to make it taste better.

A long time ago, only pharmacists were the only ones able to compound medications. Compounding pharmacies are still known today as some medications are only available in powder form which must be put into a pill form through the use of a gel cap for medicine to successfully be taken. Therefore the main goal of a compounding pharmacy is to assist with creation of needed medicines.

This is also true for medicine that is needed for pets. Medicine is basically given in doses that match your weight. Medications such as Tylenol are given in general doses. So, for example if you only weighed 120 then you would need a different strength of pill then that of a 175 pound person.

Now, a BHRT or bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is the use of hormones, which match endogenous hormones that are used in hormone replacement therapy. This is tied in with compounding due to the fact that blood or saliva testing is used to target the level or hormones in the body of a person.

BHRT also uses certain hormones which are estrone, estradiol, and progesterone. Estrone is one of three different and natural occurring estrogens. This hormone can be produced from the gonads, ovaries in premenopausal women as 50% of this hormone comes from the ovaries. This is used for women experiencing menopause. Estradiol is known for being the sex hormone. This hormone is a metabolic production from testosterone. It plays a big factor in reproduction as well. The last hormone used is progesterone which is used by women that have passed menopause but have not had a hysterectomy.

The main goal of bio identical hormone replacement therapy is to assist in treating the symptoms that women may experience with menopause, perimenopause and post menopause. Now the hormones are bought at a compounding pharmacy. At the pharmacy they are able to mix the medicine together based on the needs of the woman in question. A doctor who has done testing for the patient finds the right dose.

As you can see, a compound pharmacy plays a large role in bio identical hormone replacement therapy. It is always interesting to see the different ways things work together.