Chinese Oral Contraceptive

Description:

The popularity of “the Pill” created a new market for pharmaceutical companies. For the first time, healthy women would be taking medication for an extended period of time. Pill manufacturers developed unique packaging in order to distinguish their product from those of their competitors and build brand loyalty. Packaging design often incorporated a “memory aid” to assist women in tracking their daily pill regimen, as well as styled cases to allow pills to be discreetly carried in bags and purses. The National Museum of American History’s Division of Medicine and Science’s collection of oral contraceptives illustrates some of the changes that the packaging and marketing of the Pill underwent from its inception in 1960 to the present.

This oral contraceptive was manufactured by the Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory in Beijing, China, in 1988. Contraceptives became important in China after the government instituted its family planning policy in 1978. The 21 pills are in a silver blister pack. Each pill contains .3 milligrams of norgestrel and .03 milligrams of ethinyl estradiol. The contraceptive pack includes an insert with instructions for use.

Pamphlet Text, translated by Huikai Wang

(registered trademark) Polypharmacy norgestrel pills

(compound 18 methyl acting oral contraceptive pills)

Every pill includes 0.3 milligram norgestrel, 0.03 milligram ethinyloestradiol.

Purpose: This is a female contraceptive agent, and has the function of ovulation inhibit. It can also be treatment of dysmenorrheal or irregular menstruation. Under clinical using, if you are following the rules, the effect is affirmation with few side-effects. The ovulation will be returned soon after stopping using this medicine. It will not occurred any bad influence for future fertility.

Usage: Start to take this medicine on the fifth day after the first time of your menstrual cramps. You should take the medicine for a consecutive 22 days one pill every night for a whole cycle time. It cannot be stopped in this period. The next medicine-taking period should be start again on the next fifth day of your menstrual cramps.

Side-effects: There is no side-effects appeared for most people. A few of them have a slightly reaction similar to pregnancy. You don’t need to deal with this situation and it will disappear naturally.

Contraindications: It’s strictly forbidden for those patients who are suffering from acute and chronic hepatitis, nephritis, and breast lumps. Please take very serious for the uterine fibroids and hypertension patients. We don’t advise the women which are in their lactation to take this medicine.

Notes:

1. Please take this medicine under your doctor’s suggestion. Should you miss taking your pill at any time, taking one extra pill is necessary in 24 hours.

2. Your menstruation will come again after stopping taking pills in three or four days. If it doesn’t happen in seven days, we call it amenorrhea, you need to take the next cycle time medicine immediately. If the amenorrhea happens continuously, please stop your medicine and ask for your doctors. If you are going to take the birth control again, it should be start on the fifth day when your next menstruation is coming.

3. In the medication, a few of people will have the vaginal bleeding because of their estrogen deficiency. Please follow your doctor’s suggestion, or you can take extra ethinyloestradiol pills for one pill (0.005 milligram) a day.

4. it’s normal that the color of these pills become a little lighter.

5. You should take regular health checks in taking these pills in case any unusual.

6. When you have a plan to be pregnancy, you should stop taking this medicine and be pregnant after half year with other ways of contraception.

7. Pay attention to those broken pills. Take care of the children for their mis-eating as sugar pills.

Storage: Closed in a dark and cool place.

Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory