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Sunday, 15 January 2012, 6:14 | Category : Women

Your body is your temple. You are treated as they should? Get the latest on women’s health in women’s health newsletter WebMD.Even if an emergency should not be delayed, the effectiveness of Ella does not fade for 120 hours (five days) after sex, regardless of whether the hormone surge occurs.

Remains to be seen if she could increase the rate of spontaneous abortion in women who become few, despite the use of the drug.

Among women who are trying to get pregnant (and so do not take emergency contraception), about 15% during a miscarriage.

In clinical trials, Ella, 110 women who took emergency contraception – about 2% of study subjects – became pregnant. As expected, 15% had spontaneous abortions. Another 66% had elective abortions, but 12% of pregnancy outcomes of women are not known.

She ulipristal contains a non-hormonal drug that blocks the effects of hormones necessary for the key.

One drawback is that she might be serious may be less effective in obese women. In a 6-5 vote, the panel has no specific labeling should be required to answer this question.

Plan B should be taken as soon as possible after intercourse. You can work up to 72 hours, but is ineffective when the hormone which leads to outbreak.

The most common side effects are nausea Ella, painful menstruation, fatigue, e. She can cause abortion?

Because it is better absorbed by the body that mifepristone, she can not be used at low doses that prevent conception, but that should not cause abortion.

Currently, the only other approved Plan B emergency contraceptive is the One-Step. Although she will probably be available only by prescription, Plan B is approved for over-the-counter sales for women aged 17 and over. Women under the age of 17 must have a prescription.

She belongs to a class known as selective modulators of progesterone receptors. The only other drug approved in this class is better known as RU-486. Mifepristone is approved for use in a system that induces abortion.

However, the panel recommends strongly against forcing women to undergo pregnancy tests before taking Ella.

Drugs, to be called in the U.S. She has already been approved in Europe and sold as Ellaone.

“The real rate of spontaneous abortions have ranged from 14% (assuming that none of these 11 pregnancies resulted in miscarriage) 27% (assuming that all these 11 pregnancies resulted in miscarriage),” FDA staff noted in a briefing paper presented to the committee.

Emergency contraception again fully effective for five days after sex to be approved by the FDA, the expert of the Federal Advisory Committee said.