Skin is individual; commercial creams are not. Mediglen compounds dermatologic preparations to your prescriber's exact formula across fourteen condition areas, from acne and psoriasis to melasma, scars, and fungal nails, in the strength, base, and combination your skin actually needs, without the dyes and fragrances it does not.
Clindamycin, salicylic acid, spironolactone, sulfur, and azelaic acid combinations matched to the acne type: hormonal, inflammatory, or rosacea-overlapping.
Calcipotriol with betamethasone in a single cream, plus coal tar and salicylic acid ointments for plaque and scalp psoriasis at prescriber-set strengths.
Hydrocortisone 2% for mild disease through tacrolimus 0.15% for moderate to severe cases, in bases chosen for broken, sensitive skin.
Ketoconazole, fluocinolone, and salicylic acid medicated shampoos and scalp preparations for dandruff and scalp involvement.
Hydroquinone with kojic acid, ascorbic acid, tranexamic acid, and azelaic acid in creams, gels, and serums built for the patient's skin.
Triple-therapy style combinations of hydroquinone, tretinoin, and a mild corticosteroid, individualized in strength for stubborn melasma.
Tranilast with betamethasone gel for raised scars, with strength and base adjusted to scar age and location.
Tretinoin and glycolic acid preparations targeting newer striae where remodelling is still possible.
Early scar-management gels prescribed after procedures, coordinated with your surgeon's protocol.
Lidocaine, phenytoin, and sucralfate ointments for burn care, and silver-based preparations where prescribed.
Minoxidil, finasteride, and dutasteride topicals and shampoos. This specialty has its own page.
Hair loss pageAntifungal lacquers and creams, including combinations that penetrate the nail plate better than commercial products.
High-strength salicylic acid and combination keratolytics in precise, prescriber-set concentrations.
Tretinoin and ascorbic acid preparations at the strength your skin actually tolerates, adjusted over time.
Your physician or dermatologist writes the formula, or describes the goal and lets our pharmacists propose one. We prepare it in the Mediglen lab under NAPRA non-sterile compounding standards, in the base suited to the site: a cream for the face, an ointment for thick plaques, a solution for the scalp, a lacquer for nails.
Strengths are then adjusted over time the way dermatology actually works: tretinoin that starts gentle and climbs, hydroquinone used in defined courses, corticosteroid potency stepped down as skin clears. The formula follows the patient, not the other way around.
Compounded preparations are not Health Canada-approved manufactured products. They are individually prepared medications, made for one patient from one prescription, used when the approved products do not fit the case: wrong strength, missing combination, or an excipient the patient cannot tolerate.
That is also why outcomes language on this page is deliberately restrained. The evidence belongs to the active ingredients your prescriber chooses; our work is preparing them precisely, counselling on correct use, and following up.
Yes. Everything on this page is prescription-only, written by your physician, dermatologist, or nurse practitioner. Our pharmacists regularly suggest formulation options for prescribers to review when the commercial options have failed.
Three common reasons: the needed strength or combination is not sold commercially, the patient reacts to a dye, fragrance, or preservative in the commercial product, or two or three products can be combined into one application to make the routine actually followable.
Yes. Dye-free, fragrance-free, and preservative-adjusted formulations are routine work, built around the documented sensitivity.
Hydroquinone preparations are compounded only on prescription, at the strength your prescriber sets, with counselling on duration of use and sun protection. They are not sold over the counter at these strengths.
Compounded preparations are not Health Canada-approved manufactured products. They are prepared individually for one patient from a prescription, under College of Pharmacists of BC oversight and NAPRA non-sterile standards.
Most dermatology compounds are ready within one to two business days. Pickup on The High Street or free Tri-Cities delivery.