What should you pay attention to when doing abortion?

Although everyone knows that abortion is very harmful to women's health, in the face of unexpected pregnancy, abortion is the only way to terminate pregnancy. However, after the abortion, you need to take good care of your body, and there are many precautions after the abortion. Understanding these precautions is very important for the recovery of the body. You also need to pay more attention to rest after the abortion.

What should you pay attention to after a painless abortion?

If you don't take good care of yourself after an abortion, it can easily lead to various gynecological diseases. After the abortion, you should rest in bed for 2-3 days. Do not engage in heavy physical labor or work in cold water within half a month to avoid catching cold. You should also eat more protein and vitamin-rich foods.

1. Pay attention to rest and strengthen nutrition. After the abortion, you should rest in bed for 2-3 days, then you can get out of bed and move around, gradually increasing the activity time. Do not engage in heavy physical labor or work in cold water within half a month after the abortion to avoid catching cold. Pay attention to increasing nutrition, eat more protein-rich foods such as fish, meat, eggs, bean products and fresh vegetables rich in vitamins to promote the repair of the endometrium.

2. Keep the vulva clean and strictly prohibit sexual intercourse. After an abortion, the cervix has not completely closed and the endometrium also has a repair process. During this period, special attention should be paid to keeping the vulva clean and hygienic. The sanitary napkins and underwear used should be washed and changed frequently. Do not take a sitz bath within half a month after the operation to prevent dirty water from entering the vagina and causing infection. If you have sex too early after an abortion, it can easily cause acute endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and may also lead to secondary infertility. Therefore, sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited within one month after the abortion.

3. Observe the bleeding situation. If vaginal bleeding lasts for more than one week after an abortion, or is even accompanied by lower abdominal pain, fever, turbid and smelly leucorrhea, and other abnormal symptoms, you should go to the hospital for a follow-up visit in time.

4. Adhere to contraception. After abortion, the ovarian and uterine functions gradually recover, and the ovaries ovulate on schedule. If you do not persist in contraception, you will get pregnant again soon. Therefore, after an abortion, you should choose reliable contraceptive measures as soon as possible, and you must insist on contraception as the main method. You cannot use abortion as a contraceptive measure.

What happens if you touch cold water after an abortion?

1. Touching cold water after an abortion is likely to cause symptoms of arthritis or other sequelae. In the future, touching cold water will cause pain, joint pain will occur when the weather changes, etc. Therefore, you should pay attention to conditioning after abortion and try not to touch cold water within one month.

2. Being exposed to cold water after an abortion will have adverse effects on future events, such as migraines, and a series of sequelae. If you do not keep warm after an abortion, it will affect the recovery of uterine contraction.

3. It may increase the incidence of infection and affect future fertility. Abortion itself requires curettage, which will inevitably cause a certain inflammatory reaction. If you do not keep warm during this period, the inflammation will not subside easily and the absorption will not be so good.