What are the symptoms of uterine infection after medical abortion?

When an unexpected pregnancy occurs, it is recommended that women go to a regular hospital for an abortion. Most hospitals now can perform painless abortions, which are less painful and less traumatic, and have a higher success rate. In life, many women choose to have a medical abortion, which is very convenient and cheap, but there are risks in doing so. Some people will have an infection in the uterine cavity after a medical abortion, which can cause great harm, such as the following symptoms.

Symptoms of uterine infection after medical abortion:

If you choose medical abortion after an unexpected pregnancy, the thing you worry about most, besides the failure of the abortion, is infection after the abortion. So, if you get infected after the abortion, what are the symptoms? What are the symptoms of infection after medical abortion?

The main symptoms of infection after medical abortion are vaginal discharge with a distinct odor, or yellow or green purulent leucorrhea. The infection can be confined to the uterine cavity, or it can spread to the area around the uterus, causing salpingitis, salpingo-oophoritis, pelvic connective tissue inflammation, and even beyond the reproductive organs to cause peritonitis and sepsis.

Patients may also experience chills, fever, abdominal pain, vaginal bleeding, sometimes foul-smelling secretions, tenderness of the uterus and appendages, poor uterine involution, leukocytosis and other inflammatory manifestations. In severe cases, septic shock may occur. Blood, cervical or uterine secretion smears and cultures (aerobic and anaerobic bacteria) can be done. B-ultrasound can be performed to check whether there is any tissue residue in the uterine cavity.

If a woman has an infection during medical abortion, it will cause a lot of inflammation in the body. You should know that medical abortion achieves the purpose of forcing the endometrium to fall off by affecting the endocrine system. While damaging the endometrium, there is also the risk of disrupting the endocrine balance. Many pathogens (such as Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, etc.) can cause cervicitis in women, and ascend to lead to salpingitis, endometritis and pelvic inflammatory disease.

Therefore, after medical abortion, if women are infected with these gynecological infections, the clinical symptoms are often not obvious. That is to say, if the patient is not aware of the need for gynecological examinations, the gynecological infections will gradually develop and eventually lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.

For female friends who have undergone surgical or medical abortion, it is best to have an obstetrics and gynecology examination some time afterwards. At the same time, you should also pay attention to the precautions after medical abortion. Sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited within one month after medical abortion. After medical abortion, women’s bodies are particularly weak and they must strengthen their body, pay attention to the hygiene of their lower body, and avoid bacterial infection.