50/50 cream and ointment mix?

[clachan3]

I got a prescription for Triamcinolone 0.5% cream 50/50 mix with Aquaphor today. I can't remember ever mixing a cream into an ointment in the past 5 years, but I don't get to compound anything too fancy. I know I should just mix whatever the doctor tells me to I guess the two should mix, but have you mixed a cream and an ointment together lately?

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[All4MyDaughter]

Today I made some butt cream with three creams + one ointment and it was ok.

 

[rph3664]

Triamcinolone cream in Aquaphilic, in varying strengths, is a popular compound around here. At my retail job, we would make a stock jar, a pound at a time, just so we wouldn't have to mix it up every time.

I've mixed creams and ointments many times and never had a problem. Even if they don't mix completely, they are miscible.

 

[STAR3URY]

Aquaphor and cream is fine to mix

 

[xiphoid2010]

Today I made some butt cream with three creams + one ointment and it was ok.

Was one of them diltiazem cream? Was like "WHY?" the first time I saw an order as a resident, then thought about it, saw the logic.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

Was one of them diltiazem cream? Was like "WHY?" the first time I saw an order as a resident, then thought about it, saw the logic.

No, but I've made that too.

 

[rph3664]

Diltiazem CREAM? Did I read that right? What is THAT used for, and how is it compounded? Do you use tablets, powdered diltiazem, or the IV formulation?

ETA: I just Googled it; it's used for hemorrhoids and anal fissues. I have seen Nitrostat ointment, diluted 10:1 with petroleum jelly, used for the same thing.

 

[PharmDstudent]

I got a prescription for Triamcinolone 0.5% cream 50/50 mix with Aquaphor today. I can't remember ever mixing a cream into an ointment in the past 5 years, but I don't get to compound anything too fancy. I know I should just mix whatever the doctor tells me to I guess the two should mix, but have you mixed a cream and an ointment together lately?

Aquaphor is hydrophilic.

 

[Ackj]

Today I made some butt cream with three creams + one ointment and it was ok.

What's your recipe? We use zinc oxide cream, polysporin, nystatin ointment, and lidocaine jelly.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

What's your recipe? We use zinc oxide cream, polysporin, nystatin ointment, and lidocaine jelly.

This one was Bacitracin, Nystatin, Hydrocortisone and Zinc Oxide.