One of the more distressing side effects associated with oral contraceptives, even low dose birth control pills, in some women, can be a darkening of the skin on the face called ‘melasma.’ Apart from skin discolouration, there are no other symptoms so the side effect is mainly cosmetic. Symptoms Melasma appears as uniform, brown, symetrical [...]
Do you REALLY know what acne is and WHY the ‘birth control pill’ is prescribed for treating it? Keep using your lotions and creams but do yourself a favour and read about the culprit in the acne war……ANDROGEN… It is widely known that the contraceptive pill is often prescribed for the treatment of women’s acne [...]
Today’s oral contraceptive pills contain much lower doses of synthetic hormones than in the 1960′s when ‘The PILL’ (with 50 micrograms of estrogen) first went onto the market. “That’s not helped me much”, you may be saying to yourself but here’s some information about low dose oral contraceptive pills that may be beneficial for you [...]
