Pharmacies, always more often the “morning after pill” to women. The emergency contraceptive was sold in the past year 808.000 Time.
The Bild-Zeitung (Saturday) reports with reference to the Figures of the Federal Union of German associations of Pharmacists reported. This corresponds to a Plus of 6.7 percent compared to 2016 (about 757,000 cases).
Girls and women get since the middle of March 2015, the morning-after pill is no longer only on prescription and after a consultation with a doctor, but you can buy over-the-counter directly in pharmacies. Compared to 2014, the last year before the abolition of prescription, would have increased the taxes to 70.1 percent, it said in the image report. At that time, the funds would have been prescribed 475,000 Times by Doctors. In 2017, it had been prescribed only in of 76,000 cases of Doctors and otherwise, without prescription.
Critics warn of a carefree dealing with the drug
Critics had warned of abolition of prescription in front of a careless use of the drug. Ursula Funke, President of the pharmacists Association of Hesse, said a few months ago, the New pharmacies illustrated: A misuse of the morning-after pill – which was initially discussed again and again, we have not observed but. On the contrary, most women are very responsible with the topic of prevention.
The morning-after pill is a emergency contraception. It can be taken after Sex if preventing something has gone wrong. So for example, if the condom broke, the pill was forgotten or it came to unprotected sex. It is more effective the sooner after Sex it is taken.
Interfere with the hormone balance of women
The morning-after pill inhibits or prevents ovulation so that no fertilization can take place. The ovulation has already taken place, the morning-after pill, according to the Federal centre for health education. It is to be considered according to the experts, therefore, as a contraceptive and not as a means for a termination of pregnancy.
The morning-after pill interferes with the hormonal balance of women. As possible side effects, especially headache, Nausea, and vomiting.