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Anecdotally,
My moms have used APNO in ointment form and it's been good for over a year.
[they had some left over]
Gail
Gail S. Hertz, MD, IBCLC
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Kirsten writes;
> Greetings wise ladies, We have had a large batch of APNO mixed by our
> pharmacy that we are distributing through our clinic (much more convenient
> for moms to just get it while they're here, and we can sell them a smaller
> amount - for less than compounding a whole batch for each mom). However,
> in dealing with OCEA regulations, every medication needs to have an
> expiration date - which the pharmacy is unable to provide us with. They
> have expy dates for each of the components, but are not able to certify
> that by blending them we don't cause an interaction that speed the
> degradation of any of the ingredients. so - has anyone been able to find a
> way around this to be able to determine the shelf life/stability of APNO?
> The blend we are using is betamethasone 0.1%, mupirocin powder so final
> concentration is 2%, and miconazole (don't have final concentration right
> here). this particular batch is compounded in a cream, not ointment, base,
> though in the future we will be using an ointment per Newman's
> recommendation.
>
> If we can't provide this, they will randomly impose a 30 day shelf life
> and make us toss what's not turned over in this time.
>
> Thanks loads!
> Kirsten Berggren
>
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