The aim of this study is to provide information for best understanding intoxications produced by no steroidal antiinflamatories (NSAIDs) in human beings and pets. The main focus is the specie-specific difference and work done by the Toxicological Information Centers. Data referred to intoxications by NSAIDs in people, cats and dogs reported to CIT/RS between years 2005 and 2009 was used. Additionally, comparative data was taken in the American Association of Poison Centers (AAPCC) between years 2004 and 2008, as well references about specie-specific sensitivity. It was found that in most of the intoxications studied by NSAIDs, regardless of the species, involved ketoprofen, ibuprofen and diclofenac, with 54% of them in humans, mainly diclofenac. Concerning pets, 73% of intoxications in dogs occur by diclofenac and 60% in cats due to ibuprofen. Thus, the importance of the Toxicological Information Centers as a way of caring for and preventing these accidents, as well the indiscriminate selling of these pharmacus allied to extra prescription medication that leads, most of the time, to the death of cats and dogs.
human been; small animals; diclofenac; ketoprofen; ibuprofen
