How many days of bleeding during uterine curettage is normal?

In recent years, more and more women have unexpected pregnancies. Most women will choose to terminate the pregnancy after an unexpected pregnancy. There are many ways to terminate pregnancy, including artificial abortion and medical abortion. Different abortion methods have the phenomenon of incomplete abortion, especially medical abortion, which is most likely to have incomplete abortion. Incomplete abortion requires another uterine curettage. How many days of bleeding is normal for uterine curettage?

How many days of bleeding is normal?

1. Is it normal to bleed for a few days after uterine curettage?

Vaginal bleeding after curettage generally does not exceed 15 days. If vaginal bleeding lasts too long, the amount of vaginal bleeding is greater than the normal menstrual volume, or is accompanied by obvious abdominal pain, it may be due to poor uterine contractions, postoperative infection, or incomplete uterine curettage, and you need to go to the hospital for examination in time.

2. How long does the uterine curettage surgery take?

A curettage usually takes about an hour. Curettage is a surgical procedure that uses instruments to remove the embryo or endometrium in the uterus. It is a commonly performed surgery in obstetrics and gynecology and is also one of the methods of artificial abortion. Curettage surgery can generally be divided into the preoperative examination stage, the surgical stage, and the postoperative anti-inflammatory stage. The so-called painless curettage surgery can be completed in 3-5 minutes, but it still requires some time to prepare before and after the operation, so the total time is about 4 hours. Therefore, female friends who want to undergo curettage surgery need to arrange their time reasonably. However, the specific operation time of curettage is very short, and it can be completed in about ten minutes to an hour. Therefore, curettage generally takes about an hour.

3. How to protect the uterus after curettage

3.1. Pay attention to rest and strengthen nutrition. The body is relatively weak after uterine curettage and needs to pay attention to increasing nutrition, enhancing the body's resistance to disease, and promoting early repair of damaged organs. After curettage, you should eat more protein-rich foods such as fish, meat, eggs, bean products, and fresh vegetables rich in vitamins to speed up your body's recovery.

3.2. Observe the bleeding situation. If vaginal bleeding lasts for more than two weeks after uterine curettage, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. If accompanied by abnormal symptoms such as lower abdominal fever, pain, turbid and smelly leucorrhea, more attention should be paid.

3.3. Adhere to contraception. After the curettage, the ovarian and uterine functions gradually recovered and the ovaries ovulated on schedule. If you don't stick to contraception, you will get pregnant again soon. Therefore, reliable contraceptive measures should be chosen as early as possible. Curettage can only be used as a remedial measure after contraceptive failure. Contraception must be the main method and curettage cannot be used as a contraceptive measure.