Plantas medicinais como alternativa no tratamento da pediculose: uma revisão da literatura.

Abstract

Pediculosis is an ectoparasitosis considered worldwide as a public health problem, the pathology is more frequent in schoolchildren, but affects adults, and the elderly without restriction of ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic group. Currently, there are some drugs available for treatment, however, the parasite has been acquiring resistance making its extermination difficult. Pediculosis may cause anemia depending on the infestation and nutritional status of the affected person. The most common drugs in treatments are Ivermectin, Dimethicone, Deltamethrin. SUS does not include these drugs in its free distribution list. The paper aims to address the pharmacological treatment and the use of medicinal plants as an alternative for the treatment of pediculosis. It also reports on the pharmacist's action to help in therapy and prevention. This is a systematic bibliographic search, where the search for the material will be done through the databases Medline, Pubmed, Lilacs, Scielo, Google Scholar and national and international health committees, including bibliographic references from 2007 to 2019. Therefore pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment is necessary, as well as the use of alternative therapies such as essential oils and medicinal plants such as Ruta graveolans in the treatment of pediculosis, the latter being easily accessible and inexpensive for the neediest population. However, for some plants cited as a popular treatment, there is no research on pediculicidal activity. It was noted that the population needs preventive and follow-up measures during treatment, in order to combat this millenary disease, thus showing the importance of monitoring by the pharmaceutical professional in the prevention and treatment of pediculosis.