In recent years there has been a notable increase in the consumption of medicinal plants in Spanish society. This might be due to the fact that in some cases they have shown themselves to be efficient in treating certain pathologies and to the erroneous perception that these products are innocuous. Medicinal plants behave as authentic medicines since the chemical substances of which they are formed can have a biological activity in humans. For this reason, their joint administration with "conventional medicines" can produce variations in the magnitude of the effect. This type of interaction, just like those produced between two or more medicines, can produce pharmacokinetic mechanisms if they affect the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, or pharmacodynamic mechanisms if they affect the result of the pharmacological action. In the medical literature there are few articles and notifications of cases concerning the adverse effects and interactions that affect medicinal plants, which probably reflects an under-notification of these phenomena. If we add to this the lack of experimental data and controlled studies, perception of their prevalence is difficult or nearly impossible. This article sets out, in an order that will be explained later, the findings of an exhaustive review of the medical literature with the aim of making its existence known to the reader, without going into other considerations, such as the degree of evidence for example, which will be the subject of forthcoming articles.
Fundamento. Desde el Centro de Farmacovigilancia de Navarra se diseñó y promovió un estudio observacional prospectivo con el objetivo de estimar la incidencia de candidiasis y su relación con el consumo de antibióticos de amplio espectro.Material y métodos. El trabajo de campo se realizó con la participación de facultativos de Atención Primaria, durante una semana de duración, incluyendo todos los tratamientos antibióticos previamente seleccionados prescritos en ese tiempo por cualquier patología, a la búsqueda de determinadas manifestaciones clínicas y valorando la existencia de una serie de factores predisponentes.Resultados. De los 1.430 pacientes tratados (por 158 médicos de familia en 1.098 casos y por 29 pediatras en 332 casos) hubo 49 casos de candidiasis localizada, lo que produce una incidencia del 3,43% (IC 2,53).El grupo antibiótico más frecuentemente implicado fue el de las penicilinas, con un riesgo relativo de dos con respecto al resto de antibióticos (1,1 < RR < 3,78) IC 95% y de éstas la asociación de amoxicilina-clavulánico presentó un riesgo relativo de 3,34 (1,54 < RR < 7,26) IC 95% frente al resto de penicilinas.Conclusiones. Es de destacar la escasa incidencia de candidiasis en la población pediátrica con 6 casos (1,6%), 4 de ellos de localización orofaríngea. Teniendo en cuenta la clásica presentación de esta infección en la población infantil bajo la forma de candidiasis aguda pseudomembranosa (muguet), no sería exagerado pensar que, en este grupo de edad, además de la forma clínica comentada, existiera una segunda manifestación bajo la forma de candidiasis orofaríngea secundaria a tratamiento antibiótico como entidad independiente, pobremente representada debido, quizás, a la poca presencia de factores de riesgo en este grupo de edad.
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