After taking the morning after or  emergency contraceptive pill, it is important to monitor its side effects if any.

If there is acute nausea and vomiting after taking the pill, it is advisable to call up the doctor since it may be necessary to take the dose again in order to have the hormones take effect.

Most of the symptoms of the morning after pill are temporary, and usually clear up within 24 hours or a couple of days at most. However if the symptoms (such as nausea and breast tenderness) persist beyond a week, then it is possible that conception may have taken place and that there could have been a pregnancy that resulted from the intercourse. It is then advisable to take an ept pregnancy test and to determine a further course of action thereafter.emergency contraceptive pill

So if the morning after pill is not 100% efficacious (statistics show about 90% success rate) and conception can have occurred even when it has been taken, then the next question would be how would the pill affect the fetus?

As of now there is no clear answer to this query. There isn’t any research to show that there is an increase in abnormalities in those babies who were born after the morning after pill being taken between their conception and delivery. However what we know about hormones being administered during early pregnancy has been seen to harm an unborn child.

6 COMMENTS

  1. is there anyway of contraception if i had sex 8 days before?

    i had lmp of 13th n cycle of 29 day..after marriage it is b/w 27 to 30 days..i had unprotected sex on 6th that is within ‘safe period’..today is 13th but am not having menses till nw……what shd be done now?? plz suggest me any contraceptive which can b used??

  2. Hello Sir,would you please help me by giving the following information as soo as possible.

    ques no-1.I had sex just after my lady,s period is over.After that intercourse my lady took emergency control pill 72 in due time.Now after one monthe as she supposed to have period on 2nd March but still no symptom of regular period is found within her.
    ques no-2.What should my lady needs to do at this moment?

    Your kind help is very needed for me.Waiting for your reply.Regards.

  3. i had sex four days ago and took the morning after pill the very next day… but what i want to know is if i hav unprotected sex now could i still fall pregnant??

  4. i had sex with my girl friend on 16 may 2010,she had taken contraceptives within one hour,nd she have her mensus on 24 may but sha didnt get dat,is she pregnant?wat are the forward steps we hav to proceed now to control the pregnancy?

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