2013
DOI: 10.1590/s1984-82502013000300010
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Consumption of medicines in high-risk pregnancy: evaluation of determinants related to the use of prescription drugs and self-medication

Abstract: The use of drugs during pregnancy still represents a challenge for medicine, since the majority of drugs cross the placental barrier with a potential to cause several congenital problems to the fetus, and most of them have not been clinically tested in pregnant patients. At the same time, the medicalization phenomenon, self-medication, and lack of patient information about the misuse of medicines are additional problems. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the pattern of medicine consumption in high-ri… Show more

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“…Drugs belonging to classes B, C and D have their consumption associated with health intercurrences during pregnancy. 9,23 Similar data were observed in a study conducted in southern Santa Catarina State. 22 Regarding the use of class B drugs (20.0%), we can mention analgesics.…”
Section: Risk Categorysupporting
confidence: 79%
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“…Drugs belonging to classes B, C and D have their consumption associated with health intercurrences during pregnancy. 9,23 Similar data were observed in a study conducted in southern Santa Catarina State. 22 Regarding the use of class B drugs (20.0%), we can mention analgesics.…”
Section: Risk Categorysupporting
confidence: 79%
“…7 The former can cause agranulocytosis and the latter is associated with low birth weight, prolongation of gestation, and bleeding during delivery in mothers who used it at the end of pregnancy. 7,8,23 The consumption of drugs of class C corresponded to 28.9% of the medicines used, totalizing the second higher frequency. Although risks are not excluded, their use can be justified by the fact that the benefits outweigh the potential risks.…”
Section: Risk Categorymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One of the components of self-care action is self-medication because the use of OTC medications for the major and minor symptoms for any illness is simply available in the community pharmacy without a prescription in many developing countries [2][3][4]. The occurrence of self-medication throughout the pregnancy and breastfeeding women was found to be in the range between 25%-68% and 17%-52%, respectively [5][6][7][8][9]. Antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antitussive, decongestant, antiviral drugs, anti-allergies, laxatives, antacids, vitamins, and herbal products, etc., are most common and easily available in the pharmacies without a prescription [10][11][12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As informações sobre o risco da utilização de medicamentos durante a gravidez são escassas, o uso indiscriminado decorrente de automedicação ou de prescrições médicas sem critérios técnico-científicos é relatado em diferentes países (1) . Estudo realizado com mulheres em gestação de alto risco verificaram associações estatisticamente significativas entre automedicação em mulheres com menor número de consultas de pré-natal, uso de cigarro na gestação e maior número de filhos (6) . Tendo em vista que, durante a gestação, infecções do trato urinário (ITU) são bastante frequentes, sendo que até 10% das gestantes podem apresentar algum episódio de infecção urinária, a maioria assintomática (4) , justifica-se a prescrição de fármacos antimicrobianos neste período.…”
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