Journal of Nutritional Disorders & Therapy

Dietary supplement-drug interactions of patients with chronic disease in community pharmacy

JOINT EVENT: 13^th International Congress on Advances in Natural Medicines Nutraceuticals & Neurocognition & 14^th International Conference on Clinical Nutrition

July 27-29, 2017 Rome, Italy

Chuleegone Sornsuvit, Patcharaporn Thampitak and Phandhadeva Tripetch

Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Disorders Ther

Abstract:

The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive study, investigating the interactions between nutritional supplements and medications in patients with chronic illness. Data was collected by interviewing. A sample of 58 patients with chronic illness who co-used medications for chronic disease and food supplement: 34 females (58.6%) and 24 males (41.4%), 41 out of 58 are over 60 years old (70.7%). Collecting data was done at Chiang Mai University Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University. The findings indicated that the medications for chronic illness could be divided into following diseases of 6 groups: hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular, diabetes, orthopedic and other chronic diseases. Obviously, the most commonly used drugs were for 55 hypertension patients (43.6%). Of these drugs, amlodipine was the most taken by 23 patients (18.2%). There are totally 34 types of nutritional supplement divided into 2 groups: 12 vitamins and minerals, 22 natural products. Calcium was the most common vitamin and mineral (10.6%) while fish oil was the most used natural extract (13.27%). It was found that there were 41 pairs of interactions between nutritional supplements and medications for chronic illness, and the potential interaction was at 1 pair (24.1%). Significantly, fish oil was the most potential food supplement causing drug interactions with amlodipine (8 pairs) and enalapril (4 pairs). In conclusion, this study can help pharmacists in order to evaluate the possibility of dietary supplement â?? drug interactions and giving the consumers practical advice for taking medications.