How often should I have a follow-up checkup after medical abortion? Listen to the doctor

Medical abortion, also known as drug abortion, refers to abortion without surgical intervention, which reduces the pain of artificial abortion. In many cases, it avoids uterine scraping and can achieve the effect of abortion by taking medicine. It generally refers to early pregnancy. If there are no special circumstances after medical abortion, go to the hospital for a follow-up examination after eight to ten days. If there is persistent bleeding or abdominal pain, you can consider a B-ultrasound review, and perform a uterine curettage if necessary.

Although medical abortion does not require surgery or hospital stay, it does have certain risks. If the body is abnormal after the abortion, and the body cannot rely on its own regulatory function to recover to normal, it is easy to cause a variety of sequelae of medical abortion. Therefore, after a woman has a medical abortion, she must pay attention to going to the hospital for a follow-up examination on time. So how often should a medical abortion be followed up?
Most women who successfully undergo medical abortions will experience complete disappearance of abdominal pain and lower body bleeding within a week. If the woman's body recovers well at this time, it means that medical abortion will not cause much harm to the woman. Therefore, hospitals usually require women to go to the hospital within eight to ten days after medical abortion to cooperate with the doctor for relevant reexaminations.
Of course, this does not mean that women have to wait eight to ten days before going to the hospital for a follow-up examination after undergoing a medical abortion. If during the process of medical abortion, women find that vaginal bleeding is abnormal, or the abdominal pain is very severe, they can go to the hospital for examination at any time.
Many women who have undergone medical abortion feel that their bodies have recovered well after the abortion. In order to save the cost of re-examination, they do not go to the hospital for re-examination. This practice is very dangerous. Because the success rate of medical abortion is only about 90%, many women who have undergone medical abortion are prone to incomplete abortion. At this time, the residue in the uterus will cause heavy bleeding, which is very likely to endanger life.
If the follow-up examination after medical abortion confirms that the abortion was successful and there is no residue in the uterus, the woman should not be careless after returning home. She should still pay attention to dietary conditioning and try to consume more vitamins and foods high in protein in her daily diet.