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Growing consumption of drugs handled in Brazil

07/29/2010

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Over 60 million barrier films are produced annually

According to data from the National Association of Pharmaceutical Sessions (Anfarmag), about 100 000 physicians and dentists prescribe at least once a year, a formula to be prepared on a compounding pharmacy. According to the survey, the 7,800 pharmacies registered in the Regional Boards of Pharmacy serve approximately 60 million people per year. "These products are custom made individually to suit the characteristics of each person.
Contain certain composition and dosage for each patient, "explained the manager of Magistral Pharmacy, part of the Group of Hospital Nossa Senhora das Graças, Meidy Jussara Reichembach Pizzatto.
Dr. Meidy teaches that each type of medicine needs to be adequate for age. For example: for babies and children there in preference to drops or syrups.
"When prescribed by a doctor, the pharmacist responsible for prescription becomes manipulated by evaluating each patient," said Meidy.
For pharmaceutical Fernanda Kasai, also Magistral of Pharmacy, the compounded drugs contain the same active ingredient of manufactured drugs. Pharmacies in the presence of the pharmacist is the case in all stages of production and service.
"The customer gets to know the pharmacist who makes the medicine, and can count on this professional assistance and establishing a bond of trust, as important as deposited to your doctor," he says.

Benefits
For pharmaceutical Magistral Pharmacy medicines handled offer more advantages:
- Economy: the product is handled in the prescribed amount and exact dosage for the treatment of the patient, with no leftovers.
- Cost: There are products in the economy outside the industrialized medicine may reach 70%.
- Dose certain: only the formula can be manipulated to obtain different levels that meet the needs of each patient.
- Security: pharmacies follow best practices for handling and officers magistral preparations for human use - DRC 67/07, as determined by Anvisa, which ensures higher quality of substances used in medicines.
- Membership: manipulated formulas that allow the combination of several active ingredients needed for a given treatment in a single product.
- Pharmaceutical form: the compounded drugs have the advantage of being handled in accordance with the features of each.
Ie: children can manipulate a formula with the taste, for seniors in sachet (powder), for a patient who can not swallow capsules, you can see the possibility of making syrup or drops.
- Custom label: the label contains the patient data, avoiding risks such as exchange or consumption by others.
- Medicines not available in the market: some treatments require medications that do not exist in the market.
If the compounding pharmacy has the raw material, can meet the requirement.
Disadvantages
The drug makers point out that in most pharmacies are not prepared tablets, capsules only, which are usually larger and more difficult to swallow. Another disadvantage is the expiration date. "The validity is determined through studies duly registered with a scientific background.
For being manipulated, the validity is less automatically, "says Fernanda.



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