Familiarizing With the Types of Birth Control Pills

Title:
Familiarizing With the Types of Birth Control Pills
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502
Summary:
Millions of women prefer to use birth control pills as their form of birth control, for these

Keywords:
types of birth control pills

Article Body:
In the United States alone, more than 15 million women are using contraceptive pills as their
For almost 50 years now since the United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the

The different product variations of birth control pills available today have low dosage requir

To be able to better understand how oral contraceptive works, one should first familiarize wit
1. Progestin-only pills (POP)

The progestin-only pills, or the mini-pills, are the oral contraceptives that do not con
2. Combination pills

The combination pills are the oral contraceptives that contain both progestin and estrog
a. Monophasic

In this type of combination pill, 21 active pills of a pack contain both progestin and e
b. Multiphasic

Multiphasic type of combination oral contraception requires a strict intake schedule. Th
c. Continuous

The continuous type of combination pill has just been recently approved last May 2007. T
3. Emergency birth control pills (EBC)

Unlike the two types of birth control pills, EBC pills are not developed to be used as a

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