Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, gives advices to a fresh graduate who is contemplating on using oral contraceptive pills to prevent her from getting pregnant as she pursues her career.
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00:00In most pharmacies, you can actually see that condom is widely available.
00:05However, the actual misuse or condoms that is inappropriate or unsuitable for certain people
00:12might cause tearing and breakage.
00:16And that itself will increase the risk of sexually transmitted infection and also unwanted pregnancy.
00:23Condom itself can be made from various forms of rubber.
00:33It can be rubber, nitrile or even lamb gut.
00:38In many, many decades ago, condoms in, for example, certain countries like certain civilisation in China
00:46is noted to be using cat gut or something like a lamb gut in order to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
00:54Obviously, these days, there are various forms of condoms that are available.
00:58It can include the highly secured one which is thickened, highly sensitive one which is slightly thinner
01:06or even other ones which contain different flavours and different studs
01:11in order to enhance different forms of sexual pleasure.
01:14Condom itself needs to be really used properly because it needs to be airtight
01:20and leave some space for the semen to accumulate.
01:23When it's not used properly, the spillage of the semen can actually induce pregnancy.
01:29Worse still, for some people, it can cause sexually transmitted infection
01:33such as viruses like HIV and HPV and also bacterial infections such as gonorrhea and chlamydia.
01:41When it's used properly, the pregnancy rate can be as low as 1% to 5%.
01:48However, in many circumstances, the pregnancy rate can go up as high as 10% when it's used inappropriately.
01:57So, in that case, it is important just to keep focus on usage of it, suitable sizes for example
02:05and the actual thickness in order to prevent any spillage or breakage of the condoms.
02:13So, from hormonal treatment to barrier techniques, what about no techniques at all which is withdrawal technique.
02:20If you're that person and wondering how effective this is,
02:24then you need to stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr. G on the Spot.