Patient instructions
Instructions for medications, preparations, and home-use devices.
Use this directory to find written instructions for selected prescriptions, compounded preparations, short-course treatment kits, and products people commonly ask about at the pharmacy.
Start with your label
Your prescription label, package insert, and prescriber directions are specific to you. Call us if you are unsure how a page applies to your prescription or device.
Medication label comes first
Use the dose, timing, storage, and warning directions printed on your prescription label. Ask us if the written instructions and label do not seem to match.
Counselling still matters
These pages support counselling, but they do not replace a conversation with a pharmacist, prescriber, or care team.
Print or share when useful
Many sheets are designed for patients, caregivers, family members, or clinic staff who need the same instructions in front of them.
Compounded preparations
How to use, store, measure, and plan refills for common compounded preparations.
Magic mouthwash
Swish, spit or swallow directions, missed doses, side effects, and storage.
Compounded oral liquids
Shaking, measuring in mL, flavouring, feeding-tube questions, storage, and refill timing.
Acetic acid hydrocortisone ear drops
How to put drops in the ear, ear wick notes, storage, missed doses, and when to call.
Transdermal pain cream pump
Priming, pump counts, the rub-in technique, side effects, and storage.
Low-dose naltrexone
Bedtime dosing, step-up schedules, opioid interaction warnings, and thyroid cautions.
Caregiver
Scopolamine gel
Caregiver instructions for topical wrist application, glove use, and what to watch for.
Women, pelvic health, and lactation
Instruction sheets for vaginal, topical, and breastfeeding-related preparations.
Progesterone vaginal suppository
Insertion, storage, leakage, timing, and refill planning.
Boric acid suppositories
Treatment and prevention schedules, missed doses, side effects, and safety warnings.
Vaginal suppositories
General insertion, leakage, storage, missed-dose, pregnancy, and route-only guidance.
Diazepam vaginal suppository
Patient-safety instructions for vaginal use, sedation precautions, storage, and refill rules.
Applying topical estrogen
Application sites, rub-in timing, transfer precautions, bathing, exercise, and side effects.
All-purpose nipple cream
Application after feeding, whether to wipe before nursing, missed doses, and storage.
Anal fissure ointment
How much to apply, timing around bowel movements, bowel routine support, and side effects.
Rectal rockets
Rectal insertion, storage, pregnancy warnings, leakage, missed doses, and when to call.
Men's health
Patient instructions for ED preparations, including safety warnings and when to seek urgent care.
Children, caregivers, and devices
Practical instructions for children, caregivers, and home-use devices sold or discussed at the pharmacy.
Parent or caregiver
Atropine eye drops
Instilling drops in children, bedtime dosing, light sensitivity, and storage.
Autologous serum eye drops
Blood draw steps, cold-chain storage, bottle handling, and when to call.
Parent or caregiver
PB2 peanut protein capsules
Allergy-clinic dosing routines, missed doses, activity precautions, and emergency planning.
Spacer and inhaler chamber
Using a metered-dose inhaler with a spacer, cleaning the chamber, and when to ask for help.
Nebulizer cleaning
Cleaning and drying the mouthpiece or mask, medicine cup, tubing, and compressor surfaces.
Home blood pressure monitoring
Choosing a cuff, preparing for readings, taking two readings, and recording results.
Clinic and short-course programs
Instructions for short-term treatment kits, follow-up timing, partner precautions, and when to call.