Reply #10 robotto's post
I googled the drugs - pretty damn safe for women...
- essentially, the literature states that longterm side effects are all-but-non-existant, and the only common short-term side-effect is nausea. Not sure where you got your data from????
It is clear that a pregnancy (or a pissed off boyfriend) will affect a woman's body far more than these emergency contraceptives (ECs). In fact, all these drugs are just higher-doses of the hormones used in the "pill" that women have been taking daily since the 1960s.
Read below:
Safety
Existing pregnancy is not a contraindication in terms of safety, as there is no known harm to the woman,\\..[31][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
The World Health Organization (WHO) lists no medical condition for which the risks of emergency contraceptive pills outweigh the benefits.[37] The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and experts on emergency contraception have concluded that progestin-only ECPs may be preferable to combined ECPs containing estrogen in women with a history of blood clots, stroke, or migraine.[31][33][34]
The AAP, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), U.S. Food and Drug Administration, WHO, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and other experts on emergency contraception state that there are no medical conditions in which progestin-only ECPs are contraindicated.[31][33][34][35][36][37][38] RCOG specifically note current venous thromboembolism, current or past history of breast cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and acute intermittent porphyria as conditions where the advantages of using emergency contraceptive pills generally outweigh the theoretical or proven risks.[38]
The herbal preparation of St John's wort and some enzyme-inducing drugs (e.g. anticonvulsants or rifampicin) may reduce the effectiveness of ECP, and a larger dose may be required.[40][41]
The AAP, ACOG, FDA, WHO, RCOG, and experts on emergency contraception have concluded that ECPs, like all other contraceptives, reduce the absolute risk of ectopic pregnancy by preventing pregnancies, and that the best available evidence, obtained from over 7,800 women in randomized controlled trials, indicates there is no increase in the relative risk of ectopic pregnancy in women who become pregnant after using progestin-only ECPs.[31][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][42]
[ Last edited by wander at 15-10-2011 08:21 ]
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