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YEAR: 1994

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Managing contraceptive pill patients. 8th ed.

AUTHORS

Dickey RP

SOURCE

Durant, Oklahoma, Essential Medical Information Systems, 1994. 303 p.

ABSTRACT

A physician with an advanced degree in pharmacology has compiled this edition of a manual for family planning

providers who prescribe oral contraceptives (OCs). The manual includes information on Depo-Provera, implant

contraceptives, and postcoital OCs. It stresses that estrogenic activity and the balance between progestational and

androgenic activity of the progestin determine OCs' effect on the body. It also emphasizes that women respond

differently to OCs. General information covered in the manual includes OCs' benefits to reproductive health, their

composition and effectiveness, comparison of different OCs, side effect management, drug interactions, therapeutic

uses of OCs, pregnancy and lactation, adolescents, patient complaints, beginning and stopping OCs, choosing

OCs, and other hormonal contraceptives. Reproductive system side effects addressed are breakthrough bleeding;

amenorrhea while using OCs and post-OC amenorrhea; heavy menses; painful menstruation; changes in the vagina,

cervix, uterus, and ovaries; breast disorders; and persistent secretion of milk in the absence of breast feeding. The

manual also covers possible effects OCs have on other physiological systems: cardiovascular system,

endocrine/metabolic systems, gastrointestinal system, integumentary system, hepatic/biliary system, nutritional and

weight changes, musculoskeletal system, neuropsychological system, neurosensory system, respiratory system, and

urinary system. When applicable, the manual provides wording from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Package Insert Labeling. For example, it includes the FDA labeling that OCs prevent pregnancy but do not protect

against HIV infection, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 4079-

06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Managing contraceptive pill patients. 8th ed.", is(are)

Dickey RP. The source of this article is "Durant, Oklahoma, Essential Medical Information Systems, 1994. 303 p.".

This article was published in 1994 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 4079-06. All

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