Intrauterine Device – IUD – The Effectual Birth Control Coil – Part III

The copper IUD is recommended for usage till ten years while the LNg IUD is accepted for up to five years of use.

Reasons behind opting for IUD

One might be an appropriate entrant for an IUD if one:

• Doesn’t have any signs of infection in the pelvis during the time of IUD insertion.
• Keeping relations with one sex mate who is also monogamous and free of infection. This would mean that one is not at heightened risk of developing sexually transmitted diseases or STD’s or Pelvic Inflammatory diseases (PID), or when both partners are consensual regarding condom usage.
• Those who desire for an effectual, long lasting contraception means that needs minimal effort and can be reversed without any difficulty.
• Those women that for certain reasons cannot or don’t desire to take birth control pills or other hormonal contraceptive means.
• Those who are breastfeeding.

The copper IUD is suggested as an emergency birth control means for those who in the recent past have engaged in unprotected sex, wanting to avert pregnancy and intend to prolong the usage of IUD in the future for birth control. The copper IUD is costlier than the emergency birth-control hormone pills when used as a short term form of emergency contraception.

The Effectiveness Quotient of IUD

The IUD is an immensely effectual birth control method.

• In those who used the LNg IUD, only one from one thousand women had pregnancy during the initial year. During the five year spanning usage period, merely seven women from one thousand became pregnant.
• In those who opted for copper IUD, nearly six per one thousand women became pregnant during the initial year. During the ten years spanning usage period, nearly twenty to thirty women from one thousand women became pregnant.
• Majority of pregnancies that occurred alongside the use of IUD took place due to the IUD getting shoved out or ejected from the uterus unawares. IUD’s have a greater probability of being expelled within the initial few months following the use of IUD or after IUD insertion in those women that recently delivered or in those women that haven’t had a child.

The positive aspects of IUD’s comprise it being budget-friendly when taking time consideration it lasts for, effortless usage, lowered chances of getting ectopic pregnancy and no hindrance during foreplay or sexual act.

Read more at: Intrauterine Device – IUD – The Effectual Birth Control Coil – Part II

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