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It has been estimated that oral contraceptive pill is the most common option for birth control for women between the age 15 and 30. Whether you take it or haven’t feel the need yet, the knowledge of its working strategy will always help you understand your body and birth control well.
Oral contraceptive contains synthetic female reproductive hormones, progestin and estrogen. These pills are of two types, combination and mini. The former contains both estrogen and progestin while the latter has only progestin. These hormones prevent pregnancy by hindering the fertilization of ovum in the woman’s body.
In a menstrual cycle of 28 days, any of the ovaries release an ovum on around the fourteenth day in a woman’s body. The ovum then travels down to the fallopian tube, where it gets fertilized by a sperm if it is present there. But when she takes a birth control pill, the release of ovum from the ovaries does not take place. There is no ovum available in the fallopian tube, and hence no chance of fertilization occurring. This is the way birth control pills prevent pregnancy.
The average people from the low income strata of the society in India derive their urge for tobacco from ‘Gutkha’. Pan or cigarette stalls stand out uniquely with long strings of these packets dangling from all around.
The prolong chewing of ‘Gutkha’ or powdered tobacco coated betel nuts is major cause for the increasing reports of oral or mouth cancer in India. They are perhaps one of the cheapest means of killing a person, irrespective of their age and sex. Chewing ‘gutkha’ has become a popular form of tobacco intake among the youngsters constituting a significant pool of victims.
Popularity Of Gutkha
Because it is cheap, a package sold for mere One rupee or could go more—it is extensively used by laborers, poor people and other daily wagers. On the contrary, doctors at Tata Cancer Memorial agree that the cost of oral cancer treatment is about 3.5 lakh rupees which indicate the higher rate of mortality for poor people affected with it. Alarming medical data shows, that about 2000 people die in India daily due to tobacco related disease.
Biological Facts Of Gutkha On Oral Cancer
The tobacco which is kept in the mouth mixes with the saliva and brings out carcinogens which harm the oral mucosa leading the development of neoplastic changes. Many gutkha chewing youngsters in India suffer from the earlier stage known as submucous fibrosis. Severe advancement of the cancer leads to the removal of parts of the mouth.
Doctors are put to the meticulous task of reconstructing deteriorated or removed parts of the mouth in extreme cancer patients. Youngster need to be sensitized on the after effects of long term gutkha chewing.