{"id":4612,"date":"2023-07-22T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2023-07-28T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:57:05","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-75-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-75-84\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2017) 28 (2) 75-84"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pattern of use of water beverage of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn in a University community in Southwest Nigeria<\/b><\/p>

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Segun J. Showande, Clare C. Udoh-Kalu and Titilayo O. Fakeye<\/p>

Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration,<\/p>

Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria<\/p>

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Corresponding author: Segun J. Showande<\/p>

E-mail: pharmseg@yahoo.com Phone: +2348027887608<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Background:<\/b> Water beverages of Hibiscus sabdariffa is widely consumed in many parts of the world.<\/p>

Objective:<\/b> Its pattern of use in a University community in southwest Nigeria was studied.<\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A questionnaire-guided survey was conducted among randomly selected staff (398) and students\u00a0(910) of University of Ibadan on the use of water beverage of Hibiscus sabdariffa (WBHS). The questionnaire\u00a0<\/span>garnered information on pattern of use, side effects experienced, and drugs coadministered with WBHS.\u00a0<\/span>Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and Fisher’s Exact Probability tests were used to describe the association\u00a0<\/span>between categories of participants and indications for using and side effects experienced with WHBS.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Most (96.9%) respondents who had used WBHS, used it as a relaxant 382(29.2%), as an\u00a0antihypertensive 318(24.3%), for weight reduction 140(10.7%), infertility 127(9.7%), to cure liver disease\u00a0<\/span>87(6.7%), and for the management of diabetes 151(11.5%). Side effects experienced with its use were;\u00a0<\/span>diarrhea 69(5.3), dizziness 44(3.4%), insomnia 27 (2.1%), decreased libido 24(1.8%), blurred vision\u00a0<\/span>16(1.2%),and headache 19(1.5%).Some of the participants 164(12.5%) coadministered WBHS with their\u00a0<\/span>medications such as antibiotics 51(3.9%), antihypertensives 24(1.8%), antipsychotic 18(1.4%), antilipidemic\u00a0<\/span>drugs 16(1.2%), and antiretroviral drugs 11(0.8%). Out of those who coadministered WBHS with their\u00a0<\/span>medications, 93(7.1%) were on chronic medications.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion: <\/b>Water beverage of Hibiscus sabdariffa is used to treat diverse diseases with attendant side\u00a0effects and is sometimes coadministered with medications for chronic diseases. This may predispose users to\u00a0<\/span>herb-drug interactions. Thus there is a need to investigate some of the drugs co-administered with the\u00a0<\/span>beverage for possible herb-drug interaction.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Hibiscus sabdariffa, Herb, Side effect, Beverage, Herbal drink.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pattern of use of water beverage of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn in a University community in Southwest Nigeria \u00a0 Segun J. Showande, Clare C. Udoh-Kalu and Titilayo O. Fakeye Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria \u00a0 Corresponding author: Segun J. Showande E-mail: pharmseg@yahoo.com Phone: +2348027887608 ABSTRACT Background: Water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}