Semaglutide is typically available in concentrations like 0.5 mg/mL, with each mL containing 100 doses
According to the FDA label, the inactive ingredients include sodium chloride, sodium phosphate dibasic heptahydrate, sodium hydroxide and/or hydrochloric acid (for pH adjustment), and water for injection
There may be a link between GLP-1 drugs and iron deficiency anemia, but the jury is still out, since not much research has been conducted in this area, Stephen Hennigar, PhD, associate professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told Medscape Medical News
"Whereas a lot of the compounded formulations that have been reported to us at poison centers, they're dispensed in vials with needles and syringes, and it's up to the patients to draw out the correct amount of medication to administer to themselves, and this is where we've seen a lot of the errors." Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus require a prescription and are not sold over the counter