How long after an abortion can I take a shower?

If you have just had an abortion, you must be most concerned about the recovery of the abortion. Do you have any complications? How to avoid complications during post-abortion care? Do you know the situation of infertility caused by abortion? Don't worry, learn a little bit of abortion knowledge, let me help you solve the most urgent life trivia.

How long after an abortion can I take a shower?

Bathing after abortion Guoji experts advise patients: You do not need to wash your genitals on the night of abortion. You can wash your vulva with warm water from the next day. Be careful not to pour cleaning agents and sewage into the vagina. You can take a bath after one week, and only take a shower within three weeks. The water temperature should be appropriate and you should not catch a cold.

Post-abortion infection occurs within 1 to 7 days after the operation, with fever, abdominal pain, increased secretions and foul odor, etc. This is caused by bacterial infection. There are many types of pathogenic bacteria, mainly anaerobic streptococci, hemolytic streptococci, staphylococci, Escherichia coli, etc. Most patients are mixedly infected with several bacteria. The main sources of bacteria are self-infection and external infection. External infection refers to bacteria entering the vagina from the outside before, during or after the artificial abortion. If surgical instruments, dressings, gloves, etc. are not thoroughly disinfected, pathogenic bacteria may be brought in. Bacteria can also be transmitted to the patient through the air.

Premature sexual intercourse after artificial abortion and poor personal hygiene habits can also cause external bacteria to invade the reproductive tract and cause infection. Autoinfection refers to infection caused by poor vaginal cleanliness before artificial abortion. The common pathogen is anaerobic streptococcus. It parasitizes in the vagina. After artificial abortion, due to changes in the body's internal environment or damage to the uterine wall, the bacteria can invade and cause disease. Bacteria that have already parasitized other parts of the body can also spread to the reproductive tract through blood circulation or hand contact and cause infection.

If you take a shower too soon after an abortion, it is likely that bacteria will follow the unclean things into the body from the vulva, causing gynecological inflammation and affecting female fertility. After an abortion, the body's resistance and disease resistance of patients decrease, and they cannot effectively remove pathogens that enter the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes from the vagina, allowing these pathogens to multiply in the fallopian tubes, destroying the fallopian tube mucosa, causing necrosis, adhesion, and obstruction. Sometimes, pathogens will spread to the pelvic cavity, causing pelvic inflammatory disease, adhesion of the fallopian tubes to other pelvic organs, and closure of the fallopian tube fimbria, which is a hidden risk of infertility.