The hormonal IUD

The hormonal IUD

The hormonal IUD since 1997, offers women the opportunity for SIU (Intrauterinensystem) to prevent it. That means a mode of action of the pill and the coil.

The action or application:

The hormone IUD contains a hormone little station, which releases the hormone levonorgestrel. This hormone thickens the cervical mucus is in the cervix and therefore impervious to sperm during ovulation.

If you must go with the sperm, which are inhibited in ihrer mobility. In addition, the hormone through the construction of the lining of the uterus is reduced, so that it can not implant a fertilized egg.

The hormonal IUD is effective up to 5 years and is similar to that used conventional spiral gynecologist.

Safety:

Through experiences of practice and by studies showing that the hormonal IUD is very safe.

Advantages:

The benefits of hormone IUD are the same, the copper spiral. However, the decrease in the hormone IUD bleeding strength in women with heavy menstrual bleeding.

Disadvantages:

In the hormonal IUD is more often causes permanent and irregular bleeding. Especially at the beginning occur frequently spotted, tension headache and breast tenderness.

Also in the hormone IUD increasingly occur in pelvic infections and ectopic pregnancy and uterine perforation are not uncommon.

Using hormone IUD is difficult, since the introduction tube is thicker than in other spirals. Especially for women who have not yet taken the children in the world insertion difficult, as appropriate, the cervix must be stretched.
The hormonal IUD
For this reason, these women should not take hormone IUD as a method of choice for consideration. Only when no other reliable methods come into question, it might be possible for the gynecologist chooses the hormonal IUD.