After a few session of introduction about pharmacy practice on how to label, how to read a prescription, how to calculate the dose to be given and how to weigh correctly. Finally we have a chance to start the exciting part of the practical by making our own medicine this week. Yes, this is an individual work which means you can do whatever you like on your own for your medication.
We have a prescription from the doctor, (is a fake one of course) then have to start calculate the correct dose to be given and later check by our supervisor followed by start making the medicine. For the first practical, we are given to make a suspension and a cream.
#1 The cream, start mixing the aqueous cream (the white one) with the icthanammol (the brown one) through serial dilution method.
After mixing throughly, we have to label the content then place it into an amber bottle. This is how the final product looks like. Tadaah!!
#2 Ready to dispense for the patient? :D
Then, the suspension, it smells like cough syrup because they used the same flavouring agent, raspberry syrup. And it is in pink due to the colouring agent, amaranth syrup. This is how it looks like.
#3 It looks like antibiotic and smell like cough syrup. LOL.
#4 Another picture of it.
#5 Just throw it like that after check by the lecturers. How sad. Our hard work. :(
Above are what i did for the first day, then second day are are supposed to make a solution and a powder like medicine. Didn't get to take a solution photo since the solution does not looks interesting at all, it is in transparent so it looks exactly like plain water. =.=
#6 The powder we grind in the mortar, mixing aspirin and codeine phosphate.
#7 Then, we learned the way to pack it to ensure no leakage.
So basically this is what we did throughout the practical for this week. Next week having mock test, hope i know how to do ba. :3
