Family planning is the biggest concern of couples. Majority of couples avoid surgical procedures for permanent birth control and rely on temporary methods. It is estimated that 40% couples prefer to use contraceptive pills.Norwegian study (2011) revealed that oral contraceptive pills cause sinus problem in children. According to Dana B, “Given that progesterone is a key hormone in pregnancy, the use of progestin containing oral contraceptive pills before pregnancy could influence fetal respiratory and immune development”.
Norwegian study was organized to analyze the relationship between oral contraceptive pills used by mothers and respiratory infection in infants. Dana B and his contemporaries correlate the different types of oral contraceptive pills and sinus problems in infants. The study revealed that round about, 60,225 children aging from 6months and above suffer from lower respiratory tract infection, 42,520 suffer from wheezing aging from 18 months and above and 24,472 suffer from asthma aging from 36 months and above.
Pills that composed of both estrogen and progestin proved less harmful for next generation kids. Use of such pills did not cause lower respiratory tract infection.
Stephanie, J London, who is serving the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) said, “We found that used of combined pills, taken by most women who use OCPs, was not associated with adverse respiratory outcomes in the offspring.
This should provide reassurance to the vast majority of women using OCPs during their child bearing years. The small association with the much less commonly used progestin-only pill may not reflect cause and effect but does suggest that researchers look at these two types of pills separately in the future”.
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