postcoital contraception การใช้

• There are many reasons a woman may need postcoital contraception.
• The Yuzpe regimen became the standard course of treatment for postcoital contraception in many countries in the 1980s.
• That decision made France the first country in the world to allow public school nurses to dispense such postcoital contraception pills.
• Using the drug within three days of unprotected sex can cut by up to 89 percent the chance of getting pregnant, said Barr Laboratories, maker of the Plan B brand of postcoital contraception.
• There are two other options that can be used when a woman needs postcoital contraception : a drug called Preven that is in effect a high-dose birth control pill, and insertion of a copper IUD, both of which also require a doctor's intervention.