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Friday, November 5, 2010

Making Medicated Lotion



Weighting the necessary ingredients to be used in the medicated is a very important step in compounding medication lotions.








 
Sandra is measuring the mediation that will be mixed into the lotion.



Using a mortar and pestle, the student triturates the dry ingredients together. This term is understood by the pharmacy students to grind the powders together to produce a fine powder.








 Stephanie is using a serologic pipett and bulb to measure the liquid medication to be added to the lotion.







 







Mixing the dried ingredients together using geometric dilutions. Compounding medications requires geometric dilutions which is to mix the larger ingredients into the smaller.

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