What are the symptoms of infection after medical abortion?

Medical abortion is actually the process of performing an abortion through the use of drugs, which is a relatively common method of abortion. If you do not take good care of your body after a medical abortion, it will be easy to get infected, which will cause secondary damage to your body, so friends must be careful. Symptoms of infection after medical abortion generally include bleeding, brown secretions, abdominal pain, etc.

Medical abortion, also known as drug abortion, refers to the use of Mifepristone tablets plus misoprostol to terminate early pregnancy. In recent years, it has been widely used in clinical practice and is a very popular drug for preventing early pregnancy. It can achieve artificial abortion in the early stages of pregnancy without the need for surgery, but by injection or medication. The use of drugs to terminate pregnancy and medical abortion is the latest development in the past 20 years. Currently, the commonly used drugs are mifepristone tablets (Ru 486) and prostaglandins. The former causes degeneration and necrosis of the uterine decidua and softening of the cervix, while the latter causes uterine contraction and promotes the expulsion of the embryo.

1. Symptoms of bleeding: Mild bleeding after miscarriage is normal, and the bleeding time is not long. It will slowly disappear in about a week. But if the bleeding is severe and continues, it could be a sign of infection. Under normal circumstances, bleeding occurs because the placenta is detached during miscarriage, causing trauma to the uterine wall. Abnormal factors occur when the uterus is invaded by bacteria, causing the uterine wall to gradually become thinner due to infection.

2. Brown discharge: Regardless of what causes the miscarriage, brown discharge will flow out afterwards. Just like bleeding, it will not last more than a week. If brown discharge is still present after a week, and is accompanied by abnormal leucorrhea with a fishy odor, then you should consider complications caused by infection.

3. There will also be mild abdominal pain: Infection during sexual intercourse after miscarriage can cause abdominal pain. If the infection is not eliminated, the abdominal pain will continue and will be accompanied by a feeling of falling in the lower abdomen. When the cervix is ​​infected, it will also affect the urinary system, so patients will often have frequent urination and urgency, and will also have symptoms of incomplete urination.

4. It can cause pain during sexual intercourse: Under normal circumstances, sexual intercourse will not be painful. However, after infection, you will feel local discomfort and burning pain every time you have sexual intercourse, and you may even experience a stinging sensation in the urethra during urination.

If you get infected after a miscarriage, you will have these symptoms. Don't ignore them. If you find yourself having similar symptoms, you must go to the hospital for examination. If you are really infected, you must immediately receive anti-infection treatment. During this period, you must take oral antibiotics and pay attention to personal hygiene. Do not have sexual relations during the treatment of the disease, otherwise the infection will worsen.