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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
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| Effect of pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) upon depression associated |
| Adams PW; Rose DP; Folkard J; Wynn V; Seed M; Strong R |
| Lancet1: 897-904. April 28, 1973. |
| 22 women attending the Margaret Pyke Center, London, and suffering from supposed oral contraceptive-related |
| depression were studied. Symptoms of the depression included pessimism, dissatisfaction, crying, tension, anxiety, |
| and loss of libido; sleep and appetite disturbances were not included. 11 of the women showed biochemical |
| evidence of an absolute deficiency of vitamin B6. Age of the women, duration of oral contraceptive usage, and the |
| progestagen content of the pill did not correlate with vitamin B6 deficiency. Urinary tryptophan matabolite data did |
| not differ between the vitamin-deficient women and the non-deficient women. The following biochemical criteria |
| were used to measure absolute B6 deficiency: 1) a raised HK/HA ratio; and 2)lowered Asp-AT activities. The |
| depression in women with vitamin B6 deficiency responded to administration of pyridoxine hydrochloride; depression |
| in the other women did not respond. Pyridoxine administration can correct 2 of the mechanisms whereby abnormal |
| depression occurs during oral contraceptive therapy: 1)by preventing accumulation of tryptophan metabolites which |
| inhibit tryptophan transport into the brain; and 2)by restoring normal activity of 5-hydroxytryptophan decarboxylase. It |
| has been suggested that pyridoxine supplements be given all women on oral contraceptives to prevent depression. |
| There are complications which might develop from universal pyridoxine administration. More research is needed into |
| the cause of depression in the other women in the study who did not exhibit vitamin B6 deficiency. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT8T 586-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Effect of pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) upon |
| depression associated with oral contraception.", is(are) Adams PW; Rose DP; Folkard J; Wynn V; Seed M; |
| Strong R. The source of this article is "Lancet1: 897-904. April 28, 1973.". This article was published in 1973 in |
| English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT8T 586-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: |
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