Birth control pills
What are birth control pills?
- Birth control pills contain hormones that can prevent the release of an egg from an ovary. These hormones are estrogen and progestogen. Both these two hormones are involved in conception.
Birth control pills are used to prevent pregnancy. Birth control pills have different effects that restrain pregnancy. Birth control pills make the cervical mucous thicken, and that in its turn makes it harder for sperm to rech the uterus, in this way they prevent the attachment of an egg to the uterus. Birth control pills may also be used for other purposes than listed in this med guide.
There are two different types of birth control pills that are used nowadays
- The one is Combination birth control pills and another type is Progestin-only birth control pills. The first is probably the most spread one. These birth control pills contain small doses of progestin and estrogen. They are very efficient and have proved to be one of the best. Though progestin-only pills( also called minipills) also have many advantages peculiar only to this kind of pills.
The advantages of progestin-only pills
- Minipills do not have estrogen related side effects and that’s why women who have had any estrogen related side effects can safely take them. The amount of progestin in progestin-only pills is even less than in combination birth control pills. Minipills can be taken by nursing mothers (advisable after the baby is six weeks old). Minipills influence on menstrual flow, making it scanty and besides cause less anemia. Minipills diminish menstrual cramps, extreme mood changes, headaches, different pain. Progestin-only pills also lessen risk of ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, and PID. Pain cased buy endometriosis can be decreased by progestin-only birth pills.