Saturday, August 30, 2014

Question of the Day August 30, 2014 Why is everyone so quick to assume that compounded pain creams do not pose the dangers that FDA approved pain medicatoins do? Where is the study proving this claim?


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Safety issues are generally detected and mitigated during drug development, otherwise they would not meet the rigor of multidisciplinary review and approval by regulatory authorities prior to the granting market approval. Even with approval by authorities, some drugs will have unresolved safety signals or missing information that must be addressed in the post marketing setting, through the gathering of information, analysis and related decision-making.

There are numerous theoretical basic science, animal and clinical science safety signals related to any proposed multi-ingredient transdermal formulation intended for the far reaching indications for which the compounded creams are marketed-- from scar removal to the treatment of cardiovascular circulatory problems. There are also very serious safety signals related to prior compounded cream deaths.
The pervasively marketed, patent-holding compounded pain creams simply have not been investigated and vetted prior to marketing--they are experimental. But you would not know that from their promotion.