Health Tips

Plan B can be simply understood as a FDA endorsed emergency oral contraceptive or birth control medication. Plan B is an ideal solution to prevent unplanned pregnancy in situations such as unprotected sex, contraceptive failure, or sexual assault. If your age is 18 years or above, then Plan B can be accessed without a doctor’s prescription. Whereas if you are 17 years or below you require a doctor’s prescription to obtain Plan B.

How Plan B works?

Plan B acts on the same mechanism as a standard birth control pill. It averts unplanned pregnancy largely by inhibiting the release of an egg from the ovary, and even put a stop to the fertilization of an egg (the coalescing of sperm with the egg). In this way an unplanned pregnancy can be averted.

How to use Plan B

Dosage of Plan B is simple and easy, constituting intake of two tablets. The first Plan B tablet should be consumed within a span of 3days or 72 hours after having unprotected sex. The second Plan B tablet should be consumed 12 hours after the first tablet. Use Plan B as directed, and you can reduce your chances of unplanned pregnancy up to 89%.

Plan B precautions

Plan B would not be effective if you are pregnant. Remember that Plan B is not an abortion pill or RU-486.

Usage of Plan B can protect you against AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases.

Use effective safety measures to safeguard yourself and your partner to kep away from AIDS or sexually transmitted disease.

In case your menstrual cycle is delayed for more than a week, you may be pregnant. Talk to your gynecologist about it.

Side effects of Plan B

Some of the common side effects resulting with the usage of Plan B due to bodily changes in response to the medication can be enumerated as:

* Nausea
* Vomiting
* Menstrual changes
* Abdominal pain
* Breast tenderness
* Tiredness
* Headache
* Dizziness

Ask for immediate medical help if you encounter these or any other Plan B side effects.