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Importance of the Pharmaceutical Council in the Dispensation of Laxants and Probiotics
Pablo Lopez Veiga Juana Benedi González and Irene Iglesias Peinado
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2150/2018.08.004
The goal of pharmaceutical
care is to improve the patient’s quality of life, and it must do so by
maximising its effectiveness and reducing the risks of the treatment.
Therapeutic protocols are an important tool for encouraging the correct use of
drugs. The aims of this work are: to analyse the type of patients who visit the
pharmacies in the study; to determine the importance of pharmaceutical advice
in dispensing; and to identify the most commonly used strains of probiotics and
laxatives. A transversal descriptive and observational study was conducted with
500 patients in five pharmacies. The population taking part in the study is
predominantly female, aged over 61, of Spanish nationality, actively employed
and with middle or higher educational studies. Over 90% of the patients
followed the advice of the pharmacist over the advice of their doctors. The
most widely used probiotics were Lactobacillus
acidophillus and Saccharomyces
boulardii for gastrointestinal protection and treatment of diarrhoea. The
most commonly used laxatives are bulk-forming and contact laxatives. The
pharmacist’s opinion is increasingly important in the treatment of pathologies
that may be considered as minor. Therapeutic protocols are an aid to correct
dispensing.
Pharmaceutical care, protocols, laxatives, probiotics.
González, P. L. V. J. B., and Peinado, I. I. 2018. “Importance of the Pharmaceutical Council in the Dispensation of Laxants and Probiotics.” Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 6 (8): 742-751.