By: Phoebe Jepkemoi Yatich
Worth Noting:
- This pills can also be beneficial to your consumption since it does not interrupt sex, it makes you bleed regularly, lighter and less painful, reduces the risk of cancer of the ovary and finally reduces symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
- The most common pill used is combined pill. It’s estimated that around 100 million women worldwide use it. The reason as to why it is widely used is, it gives you regularly period, reduces pain and heavy period and may also help to relieve premenstrual symptoms.
Contraceptive pills have been derived in two ways. They can be advantageous and also be disadvantageous to your consumption.
According to Wikipedia they have defined Contraceptive pills 💊 as a pill used to prevent pregnancy. This pill contain hormones that block the release egg from ovaries, this hormones include progestin and estrogen.
There are basically two main kinds of Contraceptive pills. We have combination birth control pill; this type of pill contains both estrogen and progestin. The other one is minipill; this type of pill contains only progestin.
The work of these Contraceptive pills according to research is stop or reduces ovulation, thickening cervical mucus to keep sperms from entering the uterus and finally thinning the lining of the uterus so that a fertilised egg is less likely to attach.
This pills can also be beneficial to your consumption since it does not interrupt sex, it makes you bleed regularly, lighter and less painful, reduces the risk of cancer of the ovary and finally reduces symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
The most common pill used is combined pill. It’s estimated that around 100 million women worldwide use it. The reason as to why it is widely used is, it gives you regularly period, reduces pain and heavy period and may also help to relieve premenstrual symptoms.
Some questions may rise asking how many days after taking the pill am I protected. This simply means if your periods come on Wednesday morning, you can start the pill up to the following Monday morning to be protected right away. If you start at any other time during menstrual cycle you will be protected from pregnancy after 7 days of using the pill.
Also a question can be asked if you can get pregnant if you miss one pill, the answer is yes there is a chance you could get pregnant if you miss one pill, but generally the chance of pregnancy isn’t any higher than usual. With one exception; your risk is higher if you’re using the minipill which only contain progestin hormone.
On the other hand these Contraceptive pills can also cause dangers in your body. Some of this dangers are; it doesn’t protect you from transmitted infections, can increase your blood pressure, it has been linked to an increased risk of some serious health conditions such as blood clots and breast cancer.
It has been verified that Contraceptive pills does not cause infertility but it so designed to temporarily delay your fertility and prevent pregnancy. The pills also doesn’t affect your future pregnancy instead the pills uses hormone to stop ovulation as well as thickening the cervical mucus so that sperms doesn’t travel easily to fertilised the egg.
In conclusion people with high blood pressure are advised not to use this pills especially the combined pill which has both estrogen and progestin hormone this hormones may raise their blood pressures.

