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Re: [Birth Control] Chewing BCP???
From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 29 Sep 2001 18:13:35 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Lauren wrote: >
>Recently some of my friends and I discussed BCPs. It came up that some
>people chew their birth control pills. Is this safe, and still
>effective? We looked at package inserts for our pills, and none of them
>specifically said, Do Not Chew. So is this still considered to be a
>correct way to take BCPs?

as long as they are swallowed, they should still be effective, but I can't imagine why anyone would chew them.

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG South Lake Tahoe, CA
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