A Clinical Manager of Marie Stopes Ghana, Miss Leticia Arthur, has urged women to desist from abusing emergency contraceptives as there are consequences to them.
According to her, contraceptives are to be used only in emergency cases and not daily.
Studies show that frequent use of emergency contraception can result in increased side effects, such as menstrual irregularities.
“The emergency contraceptives, just as the name implies, are taken in emergencies, where someone is raped, where a condom is busted, or something emergency, but looking at how things are going now, and the statistics we have in our clinics, it presupposes that people have resorted to using the emergency contraceptives regularly, which makes it wrong.
Because you take one emergency contraceptive, you’re just taking about 25 pills of the regular contraceptive. Because it was made for emergency purposes, the dosage is high, to prevent pregnancy and emergencies.
If you resort to taking it regularly, as people do, once you do that, you are introducing your system to a whole lot of toxins.
So once it is an emergency, it should be used as such, not regularly,” she said.
Madam Arthur mentioned what women should consider before taking contraceptives.
She said once you take it anyhow, it will distort your period, and that is what will fail you. If you have a regular 28-day cycle and you are the type who resorts to emergency contraceptives, what it does is, that it throws your system into chaos.
What we should note is that what is in contraceptives is high levels of progesterone,”
Emergency contraception, she added, can help to prevent pregnancy.
