ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, February 25, 1997             TAG: 9702250098
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-2  EDITION: METRO 

GUIDELINES FOR PILL DOSAGE

The Food and Drug Administration's instructions for using six brands of birth control pills as emergency contraception:

Take the following number of pills up to 72 hours after unprotected sex, and take the same number again 12 hours later.

* For Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories' brands, take two white tablets of Ovral; four light orange tablets of Nordette; four white tablets of Lo/Ovral, or four yellow tablets of Triphasil.

* Among Berlex Laboratories' brands, take four light orange tablets of Levlen or four yellow tablets of Tri-Levlen.

It is vital to take the proper color pill, because birth control pills come in different colors that indicate different levels of hormones - and, in some brands, placebo pills that women take for one week each month.

- Associated Press

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