A MOBILE APP APPROVED BY EU TO PREVENT PREGNANCY BY BBT METHOD

A MOBILE APP APPROVED BY EU TO PREVENT PREGNANCY BY BBT METHOD

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Contraceptive or a method to control or prevent pregnancy by preventing sex or meeting of ovum with sperm is the most desired one by a fertile couple .There are more than a dozen medically approved methods of birth control, including condoms, the pill and implants.Now for the first time, a cell phone app not a drug or device or implant has been certified as a method of birth control in the European Union.

         Its creator, Elina Berglund, is a particle physicist who was part of the team that won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013. Not long after she helped discover the elusive subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, she left her job and went searching for answers to a different mystery: how to create an app to prevent pregnancy.Berglund and her husband launched the app, Natural Cycles, in Sweden in 2014. It relies on a woman's recorded daily temperature — taken with a highly accurate thermometer — and details about menstruation to determine fertility. On days where the risk of pregnancy is high, a red light indicates you should avoid intercourse or use protection to prevent pregnancy. A green light means the risk of pregnancy is low.

          Fertility tracking isn't a new idea. Dr. Paula Castaño, an OB-GYN at Columbia University, says women have been charting their periods forever."We've just had to use initially paper calendars, and then calendars on our phones, and ultimately now specific apps that can help us do that."

           The Natural Cycles app stands out because it is the world's first to get approval by a European health agency as a contraceptive. In a clinical study of 4,000 women who used the app — along with a very sensitive thermometer called a basal body thermometer — the results were much better than traditional fertility-based awareness methods. Only seven out of 100 women got pregnant compared to about 24 out of 100 using the rhythm or calendar method.It's still significantly less effective than other forms of birth control.

            Used perfectly, the pill has an effectiveness rate of 99.7 percent; however, factoring in actual use, the effectiveness rate drops to 92 percent. That's compared to 93 percent for the Natural Cycles app. The effectiveness rate of long-acting birth control, like an intrauterine device (IUD), is nearly 100 percent, and there's no need to avoid intercourse for days or even weeks of the month.

           Natural Cycles has more than 300,000 users. It costs about $10 dollars per month, although most users pay yearly at a lower rate that includes a basal body thermometer.There are no ads, and Berglund says personal data isn't shared with any third parties. So far, most of the women who have signed up live in Northern Europe, but Berglund has her eyes on the U.S.

                She says the goal isn't to replace other forms of birth control, but to provide a more accurate, mathematical update to an ancient option.