万花筒 2008-12-24&12-25 避孕药的好处？

For some young women, their monthly period is more than just a curse. It’s a real nightmare.

 

When period cramps¹ are incapacitating, so they prevent you from going to work, they prevent you from going to school. They require you to take medications.

 

One way to lessen² the pain is to give these patients birth control pills. The reason why it works is pretty simple.

 

In any situation, the pill has the ability to decrease the blood flow that’s associated with your menstrual period. And decreasing that helps decrease the cramps associated.

 

But some parents worry that by putting their daughters on the pill so early they expose them to risks later on in life.

 

Luckily, there are no risks involved with long-term usage of the pill, and in fact your non-contraceptive benefits increase the longer that you are on the pill. After even five years of being on the birth control pill, your risk of ovarian cancer drops by 80%, your lifetime risk of uterine cancer drops by 50%, and possibly some other protective effects for other types of cancers.

 

But there are some risk factors that can make this pill not the right choice.

 

Well, I think one of the things to be sure of is your own family history. So if you have a strong family history of cardiac disease, of blood clots³, then it’s important to … no matter what medication your teenager decides to go on, it’s important to make sure that you are aware of that and you let her doctor be aware of that.

 

Make sure you discuss all this with your doctor before deciding if popping a pill might make your monthly pain go away.

 

Judy Fortin, CNN, Atlanta.

 

1 cramps   

n. 抽筋, 腹部绞痛, 铁箍 adj. 狭窄的, 难解的 v. 使...抽筋, 以铁箍扣紧, 束缚

参考例句：

• If he cramps again let the line cut him off. 要是它再抽筋，就让这钓索把它勒断吧。
• "I have no cramps." he said. “我没抽筋，"他说。

2 lessen   

vt.减少，减轻；缩小

参考例句：

• Regular exercise can help to lessen the pain.经常运动有助于减轻痛感。
• They've made great effort to lessen the noise of planes.他们尽力减小飞机的噪音。

3 clots   

n.凝块( clot的名词复数 )；血块；蠢人；傻瓜v.凝固( clot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• When you cut yourself, blood clots and forms a scab. 你割破了，血会凝固、结痂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Milk clots when it turns sour. 奶变酸就凝块。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》