Use of Medicines with Unknown Fetal Risk among Parturient Women from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort (Brazil)
Table 2
Most used medicines by the mothers participating in the 2004 Birth Cohort classified as unknown fetal risk, by the gestational trimester of medicine use. Birth Cohort of Pelotas, RS 2004.
Trimester of usea
Medicines used at any time during pregnancy
Total ( 3,505)
1st ()
2nd ()
3rd ( 1,236)
1st and 2nd ()
2nd and 3rd ()
1st, 2nd, and 3rd ()
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
Multivitamins
31.2
17.4
20.0
26.6
35.9
46.8
44.8
Scopolamine Butylbromide + dipyrone
27.7
37.6
31.7
32.0
23.7
19.6
21.7
Aluminium hydroxideb
7.4
4.5
4.6
3.9
5.3
8.9
6.5
Piperidolate + hesperidine + ascorbic acid
6.5
12.0
6.4
5.1
16.8
6.1
7.2
Nystatin
5.2
7.4
11.5
7.7
0.8
1.3
0.7
Sodium bicarbonateb
3.3
2.9
1.1
0.8
0.8
2.7
4.8
Ferrous sulphate + ascorbic acid + folic acid
3.0
2.5
1.6
0.8
4.6
4.1
8.7
Salbutamol
2.6
0.4
2.3
5.2
0.0
2.0
1.3
Isoxsuprine
2.2
1.2
2.5
3.5
1.5
2.1
0.7
Miconazole
1.9
1.7
4.4
2.8
0.0
1.1
0.0
Ascorbic acid
1.6
2.5
0.9
1.9
0.8
1.8
1.3
Diclofenac
1.4
2.9
1.8
1.6
3.8
0.4
0.4
Norfloxacin
1.2
0.8
3.0
1.8
0.0
0.1
0.2
Dimethicone
0.8
0.0
0.7
0.8
1.5
0.9
1.1
Terconazole
0.8
0.8
3.4
0.8
0.8
0.0
0.0
Promethazine
0.8
0.4
0.9
1.3
2.3
0.4
0.4
Betamethasone
0.6
0.0
0.5
1.4
0.0
0.3
0.2
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
0.6
1.7
1.1
0.5
0.0
0.4
0.0
Pipemidic acid
0.6
0.8
1.6
0.8
0.0
0.1
0.0
Fluoxetine
0.6
2.5
0.0
0.5
1.5
0.7
0.0
Others
8.9
17.1
17.3
20.2
18.1
7.7
12.5
aThere is no information about in which gestational trimester was the use of 177 medicines classified as unknown fetal risk.
bMedicine used individually or in association.
