Emergency Contraception (Emergency Contraceptive) helps to prevent pregnancy after vaginal intercourse without a condom. Emergency Contraceptive also called an urgent, immediate, “Fire”, postcoital contraception, and contraception morning after pill.
Emergency Contraceptive should start within 120 hours ( five days) after unprotected sexual intercourse to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy. The sooner you try to bring emergency contraception, the greater the chance of preventing pregnancy. Emergency Contraceptive reduces the chance of pregnancy by 75-89% if the first dose taken within 72 hours after sexual intercourse.
Like the pill, Emergency Contraceptive contains hormones that prevent unwanted pregnancy by stopping ovulation or fertilization. In theory, emergency contraception should also prevent the implantation of the ovum, but the scientific evidence of the missing.
Plan B-hormonal methods of emergency contraception production of Barr Pharmaceuticals, derived on the market in 1999. Plan B was approved by the Office of FDA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifically as emergency contraception. Also for the emergency contraceptive pill can be taken. Some tools and methods involve Emergency Contraceptive use of combined preparations of estrogen and progesterone – a synthetic hormone similar to those that produce the female body. Other drugs, for example, Plan B, contains only progesterone.
Emergency contraception does not cause abortion and does not interrupt an existing pregnancy. Nevertheless, pregnant women should not use emergency contraception.
IUD (intrauterine device) can also be used in combination with birth control, if it is set during the first 120 hours (five days) after unprotected sexual intercourse.
Plan B and other drugs that contain only progesterone can be administered once or twice with an interval of 12 hours. Combined hormonal drugs should be taken twice with an interval of 12 hours. Number of tablets comprising a single dose, depending on the manufacturer of the drug. Both times, should take medication, a single firm.
Tablets of the first dose should be taken as soon as possible within 12 hours (5 days) after unprotected sexual intercourse. Emergency Contraceptive may cause nausea and vomiting, and the likelihood of these side effects are higher when taking the combined pill. To reduce the likelihood of nausea, take dramamin or Bonine, an hour before taking drugs Emergency Contraceptive.
If you take medication twice a second dose should be taken 12 hours after the first. If after the first dose you sick, be sure antiemetic an hour before receiving the second dose. In addition, a second dose may be taken as a vaginal suppository inserting the tablets as deeply as possible into the vagina (the drug is absorbed through the vaginal tissue).
If you’re still torn, and the second dose, do not take any more pills. They will not affect the probability of pregnancy and will not prevent it, but only cause nausea.
After taking the drugs Emergency Contraceptive
Once you have taken emergency contraception drugs
* The next period may start earlier or later than usual.
* Menstrual flow may be more abundant, less abundant or the same as usual.
* If you pass the examination before the next menstrual period, be sure to tell your doctor that they had used emergency contraception.
* Make an appointment with a gynecologist, if in three weeks after taking the drugs Emergency Contraceptive you have not started menstruating or showing signs of pregnancy.
* Make sure you use contraception, if had vaginal sex, at any time before the next menstruation.
* Continue to use the chosen method of contraception, yet do not want to get pregnant.
Possible side effects Emergency Contraceptive
Side effects of emergency contraception is usually diminish or disappear completely within two days.
* Half of all women taking a combination of drugs, feel nauseous, but only for 24 hours. And only one in five suffers from immune to the combined pill.
* The likelihood of nausea and vomiting is much less in women taking medications that contain only progesterone – this trouble is subject to only one in four women.
* Improving the sensitivity of the breast, the periodic bleeding dizziness and headaches are also not excluded.
Emergency contraception used by millions of women worldwide, but none of them complained of more serious complications and side effects.
Frequent use of Emergency Contraceptive can lead to menstrual irregularities.
