We are heading to a long weekend due to Easter celebrations and many young people will take advantage of the break to mess around.
Just a reminder if you mess around remember to protect yourself if you are not ready for parenthood.
There are a lot of lies and myths out there about how to prevent pregnancy immediately after unprotected sex, like urinating immediately after sex, washing the vagina as quickly as possible, drinking heated alcohol ,using lime and so on but none of these actually work.
But, one very common one and that many ladies believe in is drinking salt and water solution immediately after sex.
Drinking salt and water immediately after sex doesn’t work, even if you use it to wash the vagina.
Now, if you think it has worked for you in the past, you’re wrong it didn’t, it wasn’t what protected you, you were most likely on your safe period and that was why you didn’t get pregnant.
First, neither salt nor water nor salt-solution has contraceptive properties they don’t have the ability to prevent pregnancy.
And, also, if you’re thinking of direct action, no! There’s no direct connection between the stomach and the womb! So, drinking salty and water is a wrong move.
The best taking excessive salt solution can do is to make you vomit immediately and that is useless in preventing pregnancy and harmful to your health.
In fact, it is a dangerous move, because, we, medical people and nutritionists, discourage excessive salt intake and advise people to cut down on the amount of salt they take.
As you might have rightly known, regularly taking these salt solutions to increase the risk of hypertension and lead to poor blood pressure control.
In cases of diarrhea and vomiting, we advise you to take salt and sugar solution because the body is losing water, salts, and sugars! It’s logical! We are simply replacing what is being lost in diarrhea and vomiting!
So, salt and water doesn’t prevent pregnancy. It doesn’t kill sperm. It doesn’t prevent the sperm from reaching the womb.