TRIBUNE – A small number of drugs have proven harmful effects for the child if taken during pregnancy.
Professor Gilles Aulagner is President of the Galen interviews, and honorary president of the National Academy of Pharmacy.
Dr Aurore Gouraud works at the Pharmacovigilance Center, at the University Hospital Department of Pharmaco-Toxicology, at the Hospices Civils de Lyon.
In France, more than 70% of pregnant women take at least one drug during their pregnancy, whether to treat an acute or chronic pathology. The figures concerning the consumption of food supplements, essential oils, aromatherapy or phytotherapy products are not known, but their “natural” image frequently positions them, and unjustifiably, as a safer alternative to drugs, even though ‘they are much less evaluated and monitored.
In recent years, the role of the dispensing pharmacist as a local player in terms of public health and prevention has become better and better known and recognized and recently, health insurance has agreed to reimburse…
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