Contraceptive methods

Pregnancy

Beginning

The morning-after pill:

The morning-after pill is an oral contraceptive method that is applied once and the second administration must be at 12 a.m. or at 12 p.m. of the first one, according to the presentation of the medicine.

This morning-after pill is named also contraceptive of emergency. Likewise oral contraceptive others, it can bring prepared side effects as the morning sickness, the distension and the discomfort.

It is indicated in the following cases:

A - If during the sexual relation the condom broke
B - After a violation.
C - If the woman forgot to take the birth-control pill
D - If a sexual relation was had without protection of condom or another contraceptive method.
E - If the ejaculation was out, but in the area of the vagina.

The morning-after pill is done by the hormone levonorgestrel, that inhibits the ovulation, preventing this way the fertilization, according to the consensus of the specialists who at present keep on discussing the matter.

It is important to stress the temporary question: the morning-after pill must be taken in the first 3 days of having had the sexual relation without protection. In the Argentina it sells without recipe, and in some hospitals it is delivered of free form.

In La Plata and in Cordova (Argentina) a big polemic was generated by this tablet. Since there are sectors that they think that this one is abortive, one is asking for a law to prohibit his sale, and his delivery in hospitals. It is important to emphasize that this method does not protect of the illnesses contagion and, also, the hormonal disarray that it produces can be late a few months in regularizing the cycle.

Another thing to be born in mind is that, if the ovum was already fertilized, the morning-after pill will not interrupt the pregnancy. It can provoke morning sickness, sickness, headache, up to vomiting. These effects will pass them on having stopped taking. This method in general does not move forward the menstruation, which will appear in the date that had to appear. It even can spend that it goes forward or is slow a little.

Effects of the morning-after pill
 

The controversies with the "morning-after pill" emerge of the possibility that they prepare the implantation of an ovum fertilized in the endometrio. Multiple developments exist in investigation on pregnancy prevention by means of alteration of the factors of implantation, but they collide with an ethical question. For the Argentine civil code, one is it presents itself from the fertilization, so that this tablet or method that acts without allowing to implant to the zygote would damage the right to life. Then we will say that if it is or not an effect of the morning-after pill preventing the implantation, it is still in discussion.

Many people say that the morning-after pill has abortive effect because it forces a menstruation that will take the whole epithelium of the womb where the egg or zygote could be already implanted. This was discarded by the scientists, since once the implantation has already taken place, there are started hormonal mechanisms of protection of the pregnancy, come up by the progesterone and a hormone that is the human gonadotrofina coriónica, which is the one that measures herself early to know if there is pregnancy or not. The role of these hormones is to prepare exactly the menstruation and there would no be already possibility of action for any morning-after pill.

Contraceptive hormonal

The contraceptive hormonal ones are those who influence the way endócrino of the woman to do that the pregnancy does not take place, still with situations of risk of pregnancy.

All oral contraceptive ones that take along the cycle are hormonal methods, because what they avoid is the peak of a hormone called LH or luteinizante that takes place a few hours before the ovulation.

Contraceptive injectable

The morning-after pill also has his injectable variant, which hormones load is major. In fact it is always a question of the hormones that exist already in the body of the woman, by what it should not be understood like a completely artificial method. Although the substances are synthesized in laboratories, the estrogen and the progestágenos have the same base as the natives – and is evaluated how to do an enclosed industrial product that has less adverse effects than what would give the administration of the hormone in brute.

The contraceptive injectable ones are highly sure. Those who are not of emergency have an additional advantage that is that of not being necessary daily administration. It is advisable to consult the local drugstores or the medical specialists to see what type of contraceptive injectable is free in every place, since it changes according to the country or region.