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YEAR: 1973

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Do oral contraceptives need to be interrupted in order to treat vaginal

candidiasis?

AUTHORS

Justin RG

SOURCE

Journal of the American Medical Women's Association 28(4): 198-200. April 1973.

ABSTRACT

A project was undertaken to determine whether there is any difference in treatment results of vaginal candidiasis in

women who use birth control pills and in women who do not use birth control pills. 110 women who had vaginal

discharge or itching and vaginal cultures for candida albicans were included in the study. 55 of the women were

taking birth control pills and 55 were not. Of the 55 women on birth control pills, 22 continued to have positive

cultures after using 15 nystatin (Mycostatin) suppositories as compared with 24 women who were not pill-users. Both

pill and non-pill users improved symptomatically after the use of the suppositories. 15 women on the pill whose

cultures had remained positive after using the nystatin suppositories were given another course of suppositories in

addition to nystatin oral tablets. Of these 15, 6 continued to have positive cultures. 16 non-pill-users with positive

cultures following the first course of suppositories were given a second course of suppositories in addition to the 30

nystatin (Mycostatin) tablets. Of these 16, 5 continued to have positive cultures. 18 women were cultured 3 months

after their last culture. 10 of the 18 taking contraceptive pills were again positive. Of these, 8 had been negative after

treatment. The other 2 had had positive cultures but were asymptomatic after treatment. 8 had negative cultures.

18 women not taking the contraceptive pills were also cultured 3 months after their last culture. 11 of these were

positive again. 9 of them had had a previous negative culture after treatment. 7 still had negative cultures. From this

series it appears that treatment of vaginal candidiasis is not made more difficult by the use of birth control pills.

From the data one cannot conclude that discontinuing birth control pills would facilitate treatment of vaginal

candidiasis. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT8T 552-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Do oral contraceptives need to be interrupted in order to

treat vaginal candidiasis?", is(are) Justin RG. The source of this article is "Journal of the American Medical

Women's Association 28(4): 198-200. April 1973.". This article was published in 1973 in English language(s).

(PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 552-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 35552

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