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One of the most common ideas that any woman of reproductive age, who has started hetero or bisexual relationships, has is that she should use birth control pills to avoid getting pregnant. Actually, there are various types of contraceptives:
- those that are classified in barrier methods: condom;
- methods hormones: pills, injectables, patches, vaginal rings, intradermal implants;
- methods mechanics: intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine hormonal system (IUS), etc.
But the method best known and used by adolescents or women in general are the birth control pillsThey are not taken as medication.
The latter makes patients think that they can use any pill, at any time in their lives, that anyone from a pharmacist to a friend can recommend them.
The problem is the few information that the people who ask for them have, receive them and use them.
The birth control pills are hormones: structures and different progesterone or progesterone alone, in turn with different concentration and type.
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These hormones act on different parts of the body: of course, initially on the reproductive system, preventing the ovary from releasing the egg; and thus fulfills its contraceptive function so that the patient does not get pregnant.
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Hormonal contraceptives too act on blood vessels and in other specific places such as breasts, brain, blood coagulation factors, body fat, skin, hair, etc.
So we would think that hormonal contraceptives They are “terrible”, but not really.
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They are safe, if prescribed by a doctor, firstly knowing the patient, her family and personal history of illness, and then taking her blood pressure, looking at the patient’s preference, only the doctor knows which contraceptive to indicate, with what concentration of hormones, explaining benefits and symptoms that are missing in the early stages of use. In addition, the doctor also invites her to to return to a new query after starting to take them to check if she is menstruating well, if she had vomiting, diarrhea, headache, etc.
Or if she frequently forgets to take them, for example, because this makes the doctor think that it is not the right method for her.
Any method chosen by the patient or indicated by the doctor must be accompanied by a barrier method, the condom, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.
These are the reasons why you can’t take any pill and must be recommended by a medical specialist.
birth control pills something to remember
- birth control pills son medications.
- Not all pills are the same.
- Not all people can use hormonal contraceptives.
- If you smoke you don’t use hormonal contraceptives.
- They must be recommended and further evaluated by a doctor
- More preservative pills are always used, this prevents sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy.
- some antibiotics or the presence of certain symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea, forgetfulness of the shot correctly, etc. make oral contraceptives fail to do their job. Check with your doctor or doctor if this is your case
