Third-generation contraceptives kill?

The victims of third generation contraceptives in the UK could be 800 people. Experts do not yet know whether these deaths were directly caused by the use of drugs or relationship is indirect.

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When the servicemen Trudi Bannig collapsed on the floor of the military warehouse and lost consciousness, it surprised everyone who knew her. Nobody could understand what could knock out wholesome 22-year-old girl. Doctors nearest hospital found that the digestive system Trudi been terrible disease gangrene. We are accustomed to the fact that this disease affects the human limbs, which then have to be amputated, but it turns out, gangrene may develop inside the body.

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It turned out that the cause of gangrene of the digestive tract were two blood clot completely blocking the blood supply to the area. Deprived of oxygen tissue simply rot and die. Subsequent investigation revealed that labor might become a victim oral contraceptive Femoden She regularly took, according to relatives, 4 years in a row.

Fortunately, after months of artificial coma hard to bring back to life. Now it is already 40, she is happily married, but can not have children, suffering from memory loss and had to take medication, blood thinning, from the group of anticoagulants. In 2002 Trudie and 122 other victims Femoden   They filed a lawsuit against three manufacturers of the drug. The court was they lost, because of clear evidence of harm to the contraceptive were not found, but last month the case was reversed in Europe. There was an assumption that oral contraceptives   the third generation is much more dangerous than is commonly believed.

The risk of developing blood clots during chronic administration of these drugs 1, 2 cases per 1 000 people. Since the release of drugs on the market since the early 1980s from them officially dead 78 residents of the UK, but experts believe that the real number of victims exceed 800 people, as only 10% of such deaths officially attributed to the consequences of drug use. Today Trudy gathers Femoden campaign against manufacturers and other similar contraceptives all the relatives of the dead and paralyzed women who suffered from birth control pills. (READ MORE)

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