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YEAR: 1970

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Side effects of oral contraceptives on the eye.

AUTHORS

Hollwich F; Verbeck B

SOURCE

German Medical Monthly 1t(3): 155-150. March 1970.

ABSTRACT

This comprehensive review of oral contraceptive side effects on the eye includes tables summarizing these effects

as reported in world literature up to 1967 and in German literature (2 million women in Germany take the pill). The

latter table includes information on the number of cases, age, brand of oral contraceptive used, eye signs, medical

findings, treatment, course of the complication after treatment, and previous history. These cases suggest that in

subjects with conditions such as raised blood pressure, migraine, or any tendency to coagulation defects or

oedema, oral contraceptives can provoke or precipitate complications in retinal vessels and in the optic nerve. It is

recommended that oral contraceptives be contraindicated for women with previous histories of eye disease and even

healthy women taking the pill should be under constant medical supervision with obligatory drug-free intervals.

Patients with histories of blurring vision, vague, unexplained headaches or migraines of increasing severity who are

taking contraceptives should temporarily discontinue the drug until a relationship with these symptoms, which may

be early signs of imminent retinal hermorrhage or oedema of the optic nerve, can be established or disproved.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 4082-06)

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Hollwich F; Verbeck B. The source of this article is "German Medical Monthly 1t(3): 155-150. March 1970.". This

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