Wednesday, September 22, 2004
I'm stuck attending a course in "Family Planning" this week. Usually these courses for junior doctors are just mundane hoops we have to jump through for the requisite CV points. Today though I learnt something really surprising:
If you're in a bind, with no access to conventional emergency contraception, various products of the Coca-Cola corporation make reasonably effective post-coital vaginal douches.
You'd expect this would be a topic for locker room speculation and teenage mallrat debate. Actually there are three Medline papers examining this thorny issue. The conclusion of all this frenzied research, is that while Diet Coke has superior spermicidal properties to New Coke, Classic Coke, or Pepsi, for emergencies we should all keep a bottle of Krest Bitter Lemon in our bedside cabinets:
If you're in a bind, with no access to conventional emergency contraception, various products of the Coca-Cola corporation make reasonably effective post-coital vaginal douches.
You'd expect this would be a topic for locker room speculation and teenage mallrat debate. Actually there are three Medline papers examining this thorny issue. The conclusion of all this frenzied research, is that while Diet Coke has superior spermicidal properties to New Coke, Classic Coke, or Pepsi, for emergencies we should all keep a bottle of Krest Bitter Lemon in our bedside cabinets:
"...it has great potential as such a contraceptive among the poor in the densely population developed countries since it is readily available and inexpensive."Sadly Krest is only available in Ghana and Nigeria. I kinda have to take the responsible doctor line and warn you not to try this at home. Extremely effective alternatives are available in the UK at least. But if you were swept off your feet by passion in distant West Africa...
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