Perfil das intoxicações exógenas por agrotóxicos de uso agrícola

Objective: to present the profile of exogenous intoxications by agricultural pesticides. This is a retrospective study, wich corresponded to the period from january 2007 to december 2015, descriptive, with epidemiological elements of quantitative analysis and documentary nature. For the analysis data from the research forms available in the DATASUS database were used. According to the data analyzed the age group most affected by intoxication due to the use of pesticides was 20 to 49 years, the main cases being accidental and due to suicide attempts. The affected population has low level of education and the main route of intoxication was to the digestive route, followed by respiratory and cutaneous. It is concluded that intoxication by the use of pesticides needs to be evaluated as a serious public health problem, since it affects not only the health of the worker, but the environment and the community.