Oral Birth Control Pills

Oral Birth Control Pills

Today there is a need to limit the family size at a personal level and to control the nation's population. In the prevailing competitive world with the increased cost of living, scarcity of accommodation, desire for better education and improved living standard, increased contraceptive measures have paved a way in people's life.

Birth control tablets are one of the preventive measures for pregnancy. These tablets prevent the release of eggs required for fertilization in a woman's womb. They are freely available in the market and can be obtained without any prescription from the medical practitioners. Most of the woman today use these contraceptive tablets as they are considered to be much safer and more effective.

Birth controls tablets are a combination of estrogen hormone and progesterone hormone. There are several different types of contraceptives in market but among these, birth control pills are commonly used as they are considered to be much safer than the other contraceptive products and they have low failure rate when compared to other contraceptive methods. Earlier birth control tablets with a combination of estrogen hormone and progesterone hormone were used, which had more side effects. Later on, birth control pills containing only progesterone were introduced which have lesser side effects. For the birth-control tablets to work effectively, the individual has to ensure that she does not miss any dose or instructions mentioned on the package.

Woman on these tablets experience side effects such as vomiting sensation, blood spotting, tender breasts, unpredictable moods, gain extra body weight, libido becomes low and develop slight changes in vaginal discharge. Emergency contraceptive pills are prescribed by medical practitioners in case other contraceptive methods failed. There have been few instances of user developing serious side-effects like hypertension, heart attack, jaundice, gall bladder stones, increase blood clot mechanism which affect blood vessels of lungs and brain.

These tablets should not be used by women with a history of diabetes, cardiac-disease, hypertension, smoking over 35 years, chronic-liver disease, breast cancer, thyroid, gross obesity and severe migraine.

To steer clear of critical side-effects one has to properly consult a medical practitioner before opting to use the birth control tablets. Some of the commonly used oral contraceptive tablets are Saheli and Mala-D Tablets.

Apart from controlling birth or say avoiding pregnancy, these tablets are used for regularizing menstrual disorders, pelvic-inflammatory diseases and osteoporosis and other uterus related diseases.