Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used more and more often instead of paracetamol to relieve and or treat fever, dental care, ear infections, tonsillitis, sinusitis, renal colic, gynecological pain, lower back and joint pain , headaches and migraines … Faced with this increasing use, especially in self-medication, Affsaps reminded that these pain-relieving drugs are contraindicated from the 6th month of pregnancy (from 24 weeks of amenorrhea).
Indeed, while the toxicity of NSAIDs in the fetus and newborn had already been the subject of information to patients and mothers-to-be, the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products was aware of two cases of fetal toxicity, one of which caused the death of the unborn baby.
Outlawed in all its forms
This contraindication concerns all NSAIDs, including aspirin when the dosage is greater than or equal to 500 mg / day and COX2 inhibitors, whether they are on medical prescription or not, and regardless of the route of administration. .
Indeed, the passage into the blood of NSAIDs after application of an ointment or gel containing an NSAID should not be underestimated. This passage through the blood is all the more important when the application is carried out on a large skin surface, as an occlusive dressing or repeatedly, including in professional use such as, for example, by pregnant physiotherapists.
Any self-medication with NSAIDs is therefore prohibited during this risky period.
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