Emergency Contraceptive Pills Oral Medications Levonorgestrel Tablets 0.75 mg

Emergency Contraceptive Pills Oral Medications Levonorgestrel Tablets 0.75 mg

Product : Levonorgestrel Tablets

Specification : 0.75mg, 1.5mg

Standard : In - house

Packing : 1.5mg, 1 tab/blister, 1 blister/box; 0.75mg, 2 tabs/blister, 1 blister/box

Description :

A Levonorgestrel 1.5mg tablet is an emergency contraceptive that can be used within 72 hours (3 days) of unprotected sex or if your usual contraceptive method has failed.

Levonorgestrel Tablets 0.75mg should be be taken 1 pill within 72 hours after unprotected sex and 1 more peach pill 12 hours later. Each dose contains 0.75 mg of levonorgestrel (the two pills are identical, so it does not matter which pill you take first).

It is about the following cases:

No contraception was used during the sexual intercourse.

The contraception measure was used incorrectly, for example if a condom was penetrated, slipped away or used in the wrong way, if vaginal pessary or diaphragm changed position, burst, was broken or taken out ahead of time, in the case of a failed interruption during coitus interruptus (e.g. sperm ejaculated in vagina or on external genitalia).

Levonorgestrel tablets contain a synthetic hormone like active substance called levonorgestrel. It prevents about 84% of expected pregnancies when you take it within 72 hours of having unprotected sex. It will not prevent a pregnancy every time and is more effective if you take it as soon as possible after unprotected sex. It is better to take it within 12 hours rather than delay until the third day.

Levonorgestrel tablets are thought to work by: stopping your ovaries from releasing an egg; preventing sperm from fertilising any egg you may have already released; or stopping a fertilised egg from attaching itself to your womb lining.

Levonorgestrel tablets can only prevent you becoming pregnant if you take it within 72 hours of unprotected sex. It does not work if you are already pregnant. If another unprotected intercourse takes place after the use of Levonorgestrel tablets (also if this is during the same menstrual cycle), the tablet will not exert its contraceptive effect and there is again the risk of pregnancy.