Many women take the famous pill to prevent pregnancy. This contraceptive drug marked a milestone in female history, but until reaching the current pill science has had to advance a lot …
On August 18, 1960, ” Enovid “, the first contraceptive pill, was launched in the United States, with a very good reception in the market. However, compared to the current pill it was a much more dangerous drug. Women risked side effects much more easily than now: colic, ovarian cancer, as well as pelvic diseases, heart disease or hypertension.
Medicine has had to go a long way to reach a safe and efficient medicine like the one that exists today. The first pills contained a combination of hormones in very high doses, which had stronger and more frequent negative consequences in the women who used them.
After several attempts to improve the drug, it was almost a decade later that estrogens were found to cause unwanted results. The need arose then to seek the smallest possible dose, which did not produce a significant impact on the woman’s hormonal system and which provided a good level of contraception .
Constant Scientific Advances, Natural Contraceptive
Thanks to scientific advances, its side effects have been minimized and even positive effects have been achieved on the health and comfort of women. This is because today’s pills need fewer doses to achieve the same result, so the hormonal impact is much less .
Contraceptive research has been a boiling field since the 1980s. The patches and rings that began to be marketed in 2002 are the fruit of this continuous search to improve these drugs. The latest advance has been the creation of the natural pill , “Qlaira”, a contraceptive that releases the same estrogen that is naturally produced by a woman’s body. This prevents the assimilation of artificial hormones by the body.
Diego Lopez Donaire
