Say No To Pregnancy With Intrauterine Device (IUD)

An Intrauterine device is a long lasting conceptive birth control device placed in vagina through uterus. It has small strings but can not be seen during sex. It makes difficult for sperm to travel from fallopian tubes to uterus. It can be placed from 1 to 10 years but it is not advisable that long. Intrauterine Device is 99 percent effective to stop child birth. There are two type of Intrauterine Devices the Copper Paragard and Hormonal Mirena.

How to get Intrauterine Device inserted

You can have IUD inserted anytime as long as you are not pregnant. It can be inserted by a doctor and it takes few minutes with several tests which include a breast exam. If there are any problems with your tests, doctor will not advice IUD for you. It is easy for women who had an earlier vaginal child birth. Counseling is also advisable for people who don’t know the benefits and risks of IUD. Doctors prefer to place IUD during periods to decrease the chance of getting pregnant and cervix is more open during that time.

Benefits if IUD

It is a device of high efficiency in from pregnancy. It is easy to have sexual intercourse even when it is inserted, it can not be felt by both the partners. It is highly beneficial for women who do not take care of child birth after sexual intercourse. There is no harm for breast feeding mothers to insert IUD. A hormone releasing type of Intrauterine device makes women period bleeding lighter and shorter.

Risks with IUD

Many women complain about cramps after inserting the device. IUD cause heavy and painful bleeding during menstrual cycles. It may also cause anemia. A hormone releasing IUD may have the same side effects as birth control pill since the side effects are related with release of hormones. In rare cases some women face infection as normal bacteria of vagina gets into uterus during insertion of device and may also cause uterine infection. There is also a high risk of pelvic diseased. Through most infections can be cured by antibiotics but some infection may lead to therapies. Another risk which should taken care of is pregnancy if a women gets pregnant while IUD inserted there are higher risk of ectopic pregnancy or miscarriage, inflammatory pelvic diseases and preterm labor. It should be removed once women get pregnant.

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