Study: Contraceptive jewellery could make preventing pregnancy
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 28-03-2019
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The contraceptive jewellery was originally designed for use in developing countries where access to health care services may limit access to long-acting contraceptives such as injectables, implants and IUDs.
The researchers tested patches adhered to earring backs, about one square centimetre in area, and placed them tightly on the skin of the test animals.
Earring backs and watches may be most useful for administering drugs because they remain in close contact with the skin to allow drug transfer. The dose delivered by a patch is generally proportional to the area of skin contact.
"The advantage of incorporating contraceptive hormone into a universal earring back is that it can be paired with many different earrings," Prausnitz said.
source: www.apnlive.com