Pharmacists: Educate Your Customers On How The Monitoring of Vitamin Levels Can Play an Integeral Part in Creating Good Health.

Nobody wants to feel unwell. The problem is even worse when, for both the service user and the pharmacist, the causality is down to guesswork. A surprising number of symptoms are the result of long-running vitamin deficiencies. Many people don’t know that simple pro-active testing can identify these issues long before they become an uncomfortable problem. Here’s our quick guide to how your local community may benefit.

Why Do Vitamin Deficiencies Matter?

Vitamins are a little like a delicate jigsaw puzzle that holds the human body together. For instance, if you don’t have enough vitamin B, your cells cannot metabolise correctly. This can dysregulate crucial functions such as vitamin D absorption. Without this, calcium cannot perform its crucial electromagnetic role. For some people, this can lead to life-threatening arrythmias. The science is still very hazy about what comes first: the vitamin deficiency or the outcome. Either way, it tends to cause a cascade of comorbidities that, once started, are very difficult to stop.

What Is Pro-Active Testing?

Pro-active testing is a way of identifying vitamin deficiencies before they become the avalanche of problems. For example, vitamin B12 is statistically correlated to Type II diabetes. Given that this is one of the most preventable conditions, and has a strong reversal rate, it can be very helpful to identify a B12 deficiency before it escalates. Equally, vitamin C deficiency causes symptoms such as fatigue, anaemia, and bleeding gums. These can all be alarming for the service user, and can turn into very serious problems such as tooth loss. Many physiological and lifestyle factors can interfere with vitamin C absorption, and recent research shows that mental health can also play a role. As such, it can be extremely useful to use simple testing methods to keep a close eye on what’s going on beneath the surface.

What Is The Best Way To Educate Customers?

Most people don’t fully understand the crucial relationship between vitamins and their health. Importantly, the majority of the population does not understand the complex ways that vitamins interact with each other to unlock different critical processes. Thankfully, not everybody needs a degree in biochemistry to take care of their health. Usually, a simple explanation will suffice. For example, if someone goes into the pharmacy regularly complaining about tiredness, it might be worth recommending a pro-active vitamin test to determine whether they would benefit from a vitamin boost. Equally, if someone is trying to find mouthwashes and gels for their bleeding gums, it may be helpful for them to quickly check if what they really need is a big dose of vitamin C. Ultimately, pro-testing is a valuable window into what’s going on inside, hopefully before things become too obvious on the outside.

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Pro-active testing can be a way of supporting communities towards better health outcomes. By catching problems before they escalate, pharmacists can also help to ease the burden on the NHS. Please contact us today on 02825 685385 to stock Suresign Vit D Deficiency Test or to hear more about our range and the benefits of becoming a Suresign Self-Test stockist.