Which method to choose: from adolescence to menopause

 
Contraception is not chosen in the same way if one is a teenager, a young mother or if you approach menopause. At every age, every type of sexuality, its strategy. The choice should allow the best compromise between efficiency, security and simplicity.The teenager still virgin to mother close to menopause, the stable couple in serial charmer, the needs of contraception couples are very different. There is no silver bullet, according to his personal risk two concerns should guide your choice:

    Avoid unwanted pregnancy;
    But also prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).In adolescence: dual protection

  Easy to conceive the drama that may cause the occurrence of unwanted teenage pregnancy. At this age, more than two pregnancies ended in abortion. In France, thus dénombrerait each year, 10,000 unwanted pregnancies and abortions among 6000 adolescents. The prevention of AIDS and other STDs is also essential, whether at first sex or beginning of any relationship. But we know that it is sometimes overlooked. The presence of these risks leads to advise adolescents dual protection by the condom and the pill.Oral contraception seems indeed the best method of contraception for young girls, which should benefit from a highly effective contraception because their fertility is optimal, and have very little risk of complications on the pill. However local methods (spermicide, diaphragm) must be avoided at this age, as less effective and, above all, difficult to use in practice. The pill may very well be taken even before the first sexual intercourse is precisely considered, but that security, on the contraceptive plan should not lead to neglect the condom when the time comes.If intercourse took place without any effective precaution, there is a very good catch-up solution with emergency contraception or the morning after pill. It is a progestin (levonorgestrel or NorLevo®) to be taken as soon as possible within 72 hours after the return. However most the first tablet is consumed earlier and the method is effective (85% of pregnancies avoided when the first tablet is taken in the first 24 hours (58% only when it is taken between 48 and 72 hours). This contraception Emergency is the counter in pharmacies and can be distributed by school nurses.