Emergency contraception

Contraceptive pills for women are one of the most reliable and best methods of birth control. Even if you are not on the pill and are using other forms of contraception, you can also use the emergency contraceptive pill if you have an incident where you think you may have had unprotected sex. Emergency contraception is available from many high street chemists like Boots or you can contact Pearl Chemist Group for information about our emergency contraception service.

The combined oral contraceptive pill is often just called ‘the pill’. It contains an artificial version of the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone which are also naturally produced in the ovaries.

The usual way to take the pill is to take one tablet every day for 21 days then stop for 7 days during which time you will bleed which constitutes your period. After 7 days, you resume the pill again and

At Pearl Chemist Group in Wandsworth, we understand the importance of being able to access an emergency contraception service in London. Whilst you might take every precaution to prevent an unplanned pregnancy, occasionally there can be a contraceptive failure and in this situation you may want to quickly prevent a pregnancy from beginning.

What is Emergency Contraception?
Emergency contraception is defined as a birth control measure that is used after sexual intercourse to prevent a woman from becoming pregnant. The most common form of emergency contraception is often referred to as the morning after pill. This pill can be taken up to five days after unprotected sexual intercourse.

Emergency Contraception Service
While offering various forms of contraception, at our clinic in Wandsworth we are also able to offer emergency contraception

World Contraception Day takes place on the 26^th of September every year and centers around achieving a vision where every pregnancy is wanted. Launched in 2007, World Contraception Day’s mission is to improve awareness of contraception and to enable young people to make informed choices in order to take control of their sexual and reproductive health. Pearl Chemist Group offers a full contraceptive service including birth control pills and an emergency contraception service for those occasions when contraception has been absent or failed.

The idea behind World Contraception Day is to improve awareness of all contraception methods so that women can make an informed choice about their reproductive health. There are many different forms of contraception other than birth control pills. Contraceptive needs may change throughout the course of any woman’s life meaning tha

How does emergency contraception work?
Emergency contraception is sometimes also called, ‘the morning after pill’.  It is a hormonal combination very similar to birth control pills which aims to prevent the release of an egg for ovulation in a specified time window after unprotected sex.

How quickly should you take emergency contraception?
Ideally, within 24 hours but the window lasts for 72 hours but the sooner the better.  If you take the morning after pill within 72 hours of unprotected sex then the risk of pregnancy is somewhere between 1% and 2%.

Is emergency contraception just for those who have not used other forms of protection?
There are many reasons why people resort to emergency contraception.  A sudden realisation that you have forgotten to take the birth control or contraceptive pill is one or, taking antibiotics whilst on the pill is another and one that people sometimes forget about.  But