Teenager Dies From Complications Arising From Birth Control Pills ...

A teenage girl who was on the contraceptive pill died from an 'extremely rare' blood clot after returning home from a family holiday, an inquest heard.

Sophie Murray, 16, had been prescribed the pill for around eight months by the time she returned from Gran Canaria last September.

But two weeks later, the "happy and healthy" teenager, from Accrington, started complaining of breathlessness and chest pain.

Blackburn Coroners Court heard how tests by her GP confirmed she was suffering from exercise induced asthma (EIA), the mirror.co.uk report says.

She was prescribed an inhaler, however it was ineffective.

Mum Shelley Crichton told the hearing how Sophie woke up on November 8 last year saying she couldn’t breathe and shortly after had a ‘fit’ and her ‘lips turned blue’.

She was rushed to hospital however passed away later that day.

Dr Richard Prescott said Sophie died of a pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and a contributory factor was the oral contraceptive pill.

He told the hearing that the ‘large clot’ was 8mm in diameter and if it had been detected earlier she could have been given blood thinners and survived.

The inquest heard how Sophie was using the ‘common’ pill Microgynon and a leaflet accompanying the prescription warned how using it ‘increases the risk of developing a blood clot’ and in ‘very rare cases’ a blood clot can form but it is ‘very rarely fatal’.

Joanne Birch, a specialist nurse in sudden and unexpected deaths, said only six out of every 10,000 women on the contraceptive pill develop DVT, compared to only two in 10,000 without the pill, and that fatalities are ‘extremely rare’.

Sophie was a pupil at Accrington Academy and dreamed of being a paramedic.

*wow*OMG!!!..The pill has too many side effects!