Talc                                  24 gm
Bentonite                            7 gm
Zinc Oxide                        50 gm
Distilled Water      qs ad   200 ml

Send your answer to stephen.grosch@rxtimes.com for a chance to be selected to receive a free RxTimes Magazine travel coffee mug!

Only confirmed subscribers are eligible. Please subscribe to RxTimes Magazine before submitting your answer.

When you get the chance (if you don’t already work at a community pharmacy), walk down the aisle at your local drugstore and perceive how chaotic it must be for a patient. To see all of these products that contain different proportions of the same drugs reading, “cough and cold”, “flu”, “pain reliever”, “arthritis pain”, “headache relief”, etc. , then turning the box around only to read a different language most of them don’t know. Simple drugs such as guaifenesin, dextromethorphan, or phenylephrine, may be easy to identify as a pharmacist, but for patients it must be like reading Latin. The knowledge a pharmacists can bring to a simple situation, such as the one above, can be infinitely helpful for patients looking to achieving their treatment goals. Don’t forget, while you are assisting patients, how important it is as a pharmacist to simply translate what is perceived by patients as “chaos”.