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Medical advancement comes up with lots of immediate treatment alternatives to tackle accidental circumstances, undesired and/or hazardous matters happen to us. Emergency pills are the most relevant quick remedies among these medical urgent solutions. Such pills are devised for treatment of unwanted and unplanned pregnancy if taken within 3 days or 72 hours of unsafe sexual intercourse.
For whom Emergency pills should be given?
1. If a woman has sexual intercourse with a man without contraceptive methods.
2. If a condom is torn out during sexual intercourse or improper use of condom.
3. If a woman forget contraceptive pills and does sex
4. If a woman is being raped and /or does sex pre-maturely
How to use emergency pills?
If there is unplanned or un-programmed sexual intercourse, emergency pills should be taken immediately as much as possible within 72 hours (3days). This enables a woman not to conceive a child in abrupt. However, emergency pills are ineffective if they are taken after 72 hours of sexual intercourse. It is unadvisable to take emergency pills as usual contraceptive methods. Emergency pills are justified and used only for protecting pregnancy but it is not a means for abortion. “If a woman is using emergency pills, she has 80% chance of not having pregnancy, ” Family Guidance Association Guideline 2007, p.252).
Most women in our country are using emergency pills as usual contraceptive pills and this may expose them for unwanted pregnancy. Thus there need to be a shift in awareness and caution to use emergency pills properly in different way from the usual contraceptive pills.
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