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CUSTOM COMPOUNDING
Some independent pharmacies
in Bergen County are renowned for
their compounding services, in which
medications that are not available
commercially can be custom made, for
both humans and animals. Compounding
is particularly helpful when your child
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prefers a particular flavor to help
the medicine go down; if someone is
allergic to an ingredient in a commercial
medication; or if a medication must be
kosher certified.
“It is not unusual for us to make
medicine into liquid form for customers
who have a hard time swallowing pills,”
says David Miller, the owner of a thirdgeneration family business, Miller’s
Pharmacy in Wyckoff.
Marcia Dominguez, who owns
Buckley’s Drug Store in Englewood with
her husband, Gilbert, says compounding
medicines is an important part of their
business.
Compounding includes making pain
medication into a cream, such as for
diabetic patients who have neuropathy.
They can even m