What is the difference between threatened miscarriage and menstruation?

Some people are not in the stage of preparing for pregnancy, so they are not very concerned about some physical signs, especially many young couples nowadays. Because they did not take good measures to prepare for pregnancy, or they had an unexpected pregnancy, there was no way for others to find out suddenly. Moreover, many people are relatively strong and have high resistance, so the symptoms of early pregnancy are also very small. However, if you do not pay attention, stay up late for a long time and do not pay attention to rest, you may experience symptoms of vaginal miscarriage. Threatened miscarriage will have bleeding, but it is inevitable that some people confuse miscarriage with menstruation. In fact, women must make a clear judgment. Menstruation is regular bleeding. If there are symptoms of vaginal bleeding during the non-menstrual period and accompanied by abdominal pain, you must be careful that it may be a precursor to miscarriage and you must go to the hospital for examination.

How to distinguish miscarriage from menstruation

Menstruation refers to the regular monthly vaginal bleeding of women. When women enter puberty, their ovaries begin to mature and start to secrete female hormones, and the endometrium changes accordingly, resulting in menstruation. The normal menstrual cycle of women should be 28 days. The menstrual period usually lasts 3-5 days, and the amount of menstrual blood is about 20-50 ml. Some women experience symptoms such as lower abdominal distension, back pain, breast development, emotional distress, and stomach pain before or during menstruation.

Miscarriage refers to the death of the fetus in the womb during a pregnancy of more than three months but before 24 weeks of pregnancy due to weak Qi and blood, kidney deficiency, etc. Signs of miscarriage are abdominal cramps, vaginal bleeding and red discharge. Studies have found that in the early stages of pregnancy, about 50% of fertilized embryos cannot develop successfully and will be excreted from the body with menstrual blood.

If it is a natural miscarriage, in addition to bleeding, there will be tissue discharge. The blood will be relatively bright in color, and there will be translucent substances as big as one or two pounds of meat. However, if menstruation comes, there will generally be no above symptoms.

Introduction to abortion types :

Incomplete miscarriage : It is an inevitable miscarriage in which the fetus has been delivered, but part or all of the placenta remains in the uterine cavity. The difference between threatened abortion and menstruation is that the uterus contracts, vaginal bleeding increases, and even heavy bleeding may cause shock.

Complete abortion : The fetus and placenta are completely expelled, the difference between threatened abortion and menstruation, bleeding stops, and abdominal pain disappears.

Threatened abortion : only a small amount of vaginal bleeding, accompanied by lower abdominal pain and lower back pain. Threatened abortion and menstruation can be distinguished by doing a vaginal examination.

Inevitable miscarriage : It is the further development of threatened miscarriage. Threatened miscarriage and vaginal miscarriage can be distinguished by the amount of vaginal bleeding. Inevitable miscarriage has vaginal bleeding that exceeds the amount of menstruation, and lower abdominal cramps are aggravated.