Orientação farmacêutica quanto ao uso da pílula do dia seguinte: uma revisão.

Abstract

The pharmacist is one of the health professionals who is closest to the community, so way that it acts in the promotion of health, prevention of problems related to the medicines and promotes their rational use. In this sense, there is an increasing clinic, and the professional is also able to provide guidance on the use of emergency contraceptives which are extremely effective drugs, but must be used with great caution as they have a great impact on women's health. Thus, this study aimed to highlight the use of Emergency Contraceptives, as well as the importance of the pharmaceutical professional in the viability of health through pharmaceutical. The construction of this study was carried out from a bibliographic research integrative literature, by searching for materials in electronic databases in the area of health (Medline, Pubmed, Lilacs and SciELO), books, magazines and articles published in the Portuguese, through access to the library collection of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) and in other libraries or diverse sources from the last ten years (with exception of two references from the Ministry of Health dated 2002 and 2005), so systematic, from August 2021 to February 2022, using the following delimiters: 1) Emergency contraceptive; 2) Prevention; 3) Pharmaceutical Guidance; 4) Pill of the next day. The study was extremely relevant for a good professional performance, since there are many doubts related to the correct use of this class of drugs, collaborating to prevent adverse reactions and optimize their use correctly and safe. Making a synthesis of our research, it was possible to show that the pharmacists should pass on the necessary guidance to women in relation to results and the risks and side effects caused by the use of the morning-after pill, hence the importance of pharmaceutical guidance. For our research we found 32 articles that lectured on the subject where, after reading and analysis, we used 24 for the elaboration of this work where we could conclude that the pharmacist has an immeasurable importance society, providing information to the patient about the appropriate contraceptive method, making the professional aware of the development of barrier and hormonal methods, in order to assist in choosing the best method.