Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Child Development:
Contraceptives
- FEMALE
- Combined Pill
- Prevents ovaries
from producing
eggs
- 100% successful
- Advantages
- Reduces periods,
pain and blood loss
- Reliable for
preventing pregnancy
- Some health advantages
- Disadvantages
- No protection from STIs
- Remembering to take is
at the same time everyday
- Some health risks
- Prescription
required
- Mini Pill
- Makes it hard for sperm
to get into the uterus and
hard for fertilisation or
implantation to take
place
- 99% successful
- Advantages
- Reduces
periods,
pain and
blood loss
- Reliable for
prevent
pregnancy
- Some health
advantages
- Fewer health
risks than the
combined pill
- Can be used by
breastfeeding
mothers
- Disadvantages
- No protection from STIs
- Remembering to
take it at the same
time everyday
- Some health risks
- Prescription
required
- Female
Condoms
- Sperm
stopped from
entering the
Vagina
- 95% successful
- Advantages
- Protection from
STIs and unwanted
pregnancy
- Available
without
prescription
- No medication
needed
- Can be put in
hours before
sex
- Can be used by
people allergic
to latex
- Disadvantages
- Put on and
removed carefully
- Not widely
available
- Large and can make
an off-putting noise
- Diagphragm (cap)
(used with
spermicide jelly or
creams
- Sperm stopped
from reaching egg
and spermicide
makes sperm
inactive
- 92-96% successful
- Advantages
- Good protection
from unwanted
pregnancy
- Can be put
in hours
before sex
- No
medication or
side effects
- Disadvantages
- Difficult
to use
correctly
- Must be fitted
by a clincian
- May slip out of
places during
sex
- IUD
(intra-uterine
device)
- Implantation is
prevented
- 98-99% successful
- Advantages
- Excellent protection from
unwanted pregnancy
- No medication -
lasts for 10 years
- More
reversible than
sterilisation
- Disadvantages
- No protection
from STIs
- Additional bleeding
and cramps possible
- Small number of
women allergic
to copper
- IUD
- Intrauterine System
(slow release of
progesterone)
- Progesterone is gradually and
slowly released. This stops the
sperm reaching the egg.
- 99% successful
- Disadvantages
- No protection
from STIs
- Advantages
- Excellent protection
from unwanted
pregnancy
- No medication -
lasts for 7 years
- More reversible
than sterilisation
- Less bleeding and
cramping than IUD
- Contraceptive implant (slow release of
progesterone)
- 99% successful
- An implant of the hormone progesterone, usually
into the upper arm, prevents implantation.