Contraception/Birth Control

What’s contraception?

Contraception is any exercise, medication, or gear used to stop being pregnant. There are various kinds of contraception accessible for individuals who don’t want to turn into pregnant. The choice on which methodology is best for you ought to be made together with your healthcare supplier, in addition to together with your companion.

Contraception strategies work in numerous methods to stop being pregnant, together with:

• Making a barrier that blocks sperm from reaching the egg

• Killing sperm

• Stopping eggs from being launched by the ovaries

• Altering the cervical mucus to stop sperm from transferring into the uterus

• Altering the tissue lining the uterus so {that a} fertilized egg cannot implant

What are the various kinds of contraception?

You do not want a prescription out of your healthcare supplier for these strategies:

• Abstinence. Not having intercourse.

• Spermicides. Foams or lotions positioned contained in the vagina to kill sperm. These can also shield towards sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly when used with a latex condom.

• Male condom. A skinny tube product of latex or a pure materials that’s positioned over the penis. The sperm is collected ultimately of the condom. Latex condoms could present some safety towards STIs.

• Feminine condom. A liner product of latex or pure materials that’s positioned contained in the vagina. Latex condoms could shield towards STIs.

• Pure household planning. Timing intercourse to keep away from fertile days utilizing numerous methods of retaining monitor of physique temperature. It additionally entails anticipating modifications in cervical mucus and utilizing ovulation prediction kits. This methodology is commonly often known as the rhythm methodology. It has a excessive threat for being pregnant.

You must go to your healthcare supplier for an examination and a prescription for these strategies:

• Contraception capsules (oral contraceptives). Medicines taken day by day that forestall ovulation by controlling pituitary hormone secretion. Normally, oral contraceptives comprise the hormones estrogen and progestin.

  Along with stopping being pregnant, oral contraceptives have some well being advantages. They will regulate menstrual cycles and reduce the quantity and size of menstrual intervals. This might help enhance iron shops in folks with iron deficiency linked to extreme bleeding. Oral contraceptives may also forestall sure ovarian and endometrial cancers. Some analysis has discovered that some benign (noncancerous) breast ailments occur much less typically with the usage of oral contraceptives. These breast ailments embody fibroadenoma and cystic modifications. Latest research have additionally prompt that oral contraceptive use could scale back the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis.

• Minipill. Day by day medication that has solely the hormone progestin, in contrast to the normal contraception tablet. The minipill thickens cervical mucus and prevents the sperm from reaching the egg. It can also lower the circulate of your interval and shield towards pelvic inflammatory illness and ovarian and endometrial most cancers.

• Implant. A capsule containing the artificial hormone etonogestrel. It’s put below the pores and skin within the higher arm of a lady. It prevents the ovaries from releasing an egg for as much as 3 years. A neighborhood anesthetic is required for placing in and taking out the sort of contraception.

• Injection. A progesterone-like medication given by injection that stops ovulation. The results final for about 3 months. One other injection have to be given to proceed contraception effectiveness.

• Patch. A pores and skin patch worn on the physique that releases the hormones estrogen and progestin into the bloodstream. It’s handiest in individuals who weigh lower than 198 kilos.

• Diaphragm or cervical cap. A dome-shaped rubber cup with a versatile rim that’s inserted by way of the vagina to cowl the cervix. Any such contraception have to be inserted earlier than having intercourse.

• Hormonal vaginal contraceptive ring. A hoop that’s positioned contained in the vagina across the cervix. The ring releases the hormones estrogen and progestin.

• Intrauterine system (IUD). Units positioned within the uterus by way of the cervix by a healthcare supplier. The IUD works by thickening cervical mucus to make it arduous for sperm to enter the cervix. Or it prevents the fertilized egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus. IUDs containing hormones are additionally known as intrauterine programs. They have to be changed each 3 to eight years, relying on which system is chosen. Copper IUDs can last as long as 10 years.

These surgical procedures outcome within the incapability to turn into pregnant:

• Hysterectomy. Elimination of the uterus and normally the ovaries and fallopian tubes. It is a everlasting type of contraception.

• Tubal ligation or tubal occlusion (“tying the tubes”). Surgical procedure to chop, cauterize, or band the fallopian tubes to stop the egg from being transported to the uterus. Tubal ligation is designed to be a everlasting methodology of contraception. Sure kinds of tubal ligations will be reversed. However the reversal process could not work.

• Salpingectomies. Surgical procedure to take away each fallopian tubes. It is a everlasting type of contraception.

• Vasectomy. Chopping or clamping the vas deferens. These are the tubes that carry the sperm from the testes. The testes nonetheless make sperm, however the sperm die and are absorbed by the physique. It is a everlasting male contraception measure.

The next are not dependable strategies of contraception:

• Withdrawing earlier than ejaculation

• Having intercourse throughout menstruation

• Standing up instantly after intercourse

• Douching after intercourse