La Vitamine D et le Système Immunitaire-Conseil du Pharmacien d'Officine

Abstract

Vitamin D takes an essential place in the substances that protect the body from several pathologies of the immune system, the relations between vitamin D and the immune system are complex and far from being fully understood. Its immune modulatory role, combining activation of non-specific immune defense systems and inhibition of specific antigen systems, explains why vitamin D deficiency could be one of the factors involved in the pathogenesis of immune system diseases. Our study aims to study the knowledge and consumption of vitamin D by patients and the evaluation of the advice of pharmacy pharmacists for vitamin D, it is carried out on a sample of 300 patients and 40 pharmacists in the city of M'SILA, in the state of ALGERIA in a period of 5 months (from December 01, 2021 to April 30, 2022) the study is of a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive nature with an exploratory aim.We obtained for pharmacists a lack of training, 73% of patients have not done any training and pharmacists ignore the relationship of vitamin D and the immune system, only 25% of the population know the role of vitamin D in pathologies of the immune system and most pharmacists are unaware of their pharmacology, 45% of pharmacists are aware of the drug interactions of vitamin D and 15% are aware of the adverse effects, therefore the advice of pharmacists to patients is insufficient. For a cultured population, 66% of university education and young age of 20 to 40 years (73%), we have insufficient information