Patient's question:
The medication, it can only be taken after six months of discontinuation. During this year, strict breastfeeding is required. Condoms have been used consistently, and occasionally birth control pills are also used. But recently, it's said that emergency contraception pills can easily lead to ectopic pregnancy. Is that really true?Doctor's answer:
Experts from the gynecological hospital said, "The claim that emergency contraception pills can cause ectopic pregnancy has not been proven yet." According to a 2009 experiment by the Family Planning Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, emergency contraception pills do not increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy at all. The results of the experiment showed: among 15,696 women who took levonorgestrel emergency contraception pills, 307 became pregnant, with 3 cases of ectopic pregnancy, accounting for 1% of the total number of pregnancies. The incidence of ectopic pregnancy in women with normal pregnancies is 0.8% to 2%. Experts from the gynecological hospital said, "Emergency contraception pills work by affecting a woman's endocrine system to prevent the reunion of sperm and eggs and the implantation of the fertilized egg. This is the mechanism that makes it possible that it may not achieve the effect of breastfeeding, for example, if the fertilized egg has already formed before taking the medication."