Nic stix (5mg/g topical)
Jan 2, 2012
Dear Doctors,
At the Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy, we want to help you help your patients. One way we can help you is through compounding. Compounding is when a pharmacist modifies or mixes a medication for a specific patient with a prescription from that patients prescriber. Common reasons to compound a medication are to get a non-commercially available dose, to get a medication into a patient by a different route or to re-create a medication that is temporarily or permanently off the market. Here is our suggestion this month:
| Compound Name: | Nicotine |
| What is in It: | Smoking cessation |
| Indication: | Nausea - topical rub - avoids oral, IM, SC, rectal routes |
| How to Prescribe: | Looks like a chap stick tube. Stress this is not for the lips. Will rub 1-3 swipes on inside of wrist when they get a craving. |
We hope that gives you some ideas about how we can help you help your patients! Any questions? Call us at 638-4602.
Thanks,
The Pharmacists of the Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy
