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Does cough medicine with Codeine decrease the effectiveness of birth control pills?
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Hello there.

As Codeine is a inflammatory and also from the Paracetamol family, its unlikelly it will affect the effectiveness of the birth control pills you are taking.

But if you are in doubt, then use a condom for the next seven days to prevent pregnancy.

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