Low dose pill contains maximum what amount of progesterone (in microgram)
Ans. c (35 micrograms). (Ref. K D Tripathi, 4th/pg.319)Preparations Combination pillsCommentsContain both estrogen and progestin.Combination pills are packaged in 21-day or 28-day cycles. The last seven pills of a 28-day pack are placebo pills.Progestin-only pills ("mini-pill")Monophasic combination pills"Low-dose" pillsThe 20pg preparationsAssociated with more breakthrough bleeding than combination pills, are rarely prescribed except in lactating women.contain the same dose of estrogen and progestin in each of the 21 hormonally active pills. Current pills contain on average 30 to 35 mg.Pills containing less than 50 mg of ethinyl estradiol.Several preparations containing only 20 mg of ethinyl estradiol are not available.These are often used for perimenopausal women who want contraception with the lowest estrogen dose possible. These preparations provide enough estrogen to relieve vasomotor flashes.Third-generation progestinsMore selective progestins include norgestimate, desogestrel, and gestodene.They have some structural modifications that lower their androgen activity.The new progestins are not much less androgenic than norethindrone.Low dose OC pills# These are defined as OC pills with estrogen content (ethinyl estradiol) of > 50 microgram.# However in developed countries nowadays use low dose OC pills containing 20 microgram estrogen, while in India the estrogen content is 30 micrograms ( Mala-N, Mala-D).# Simple regimen of "3 weeks on and 1 week off' is followed.
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Methods - Combined Oestrogen-Progestogen Methods