Tablet abortion

In the event of an unwanted pregnancy many women turn to a women's consultation with the intention of having an abortion. If scraping of the fetal egg from the uterine cavity is performed, this procedure is usually performed in the operating room under general anesthesia. Such interference can have rather dangerous consequences: as a result of an unsuccessful abortion, a woman may lose not only the opportunity to become a mother, but also her own life. This causes many to fear scraping, and they are wondering whether it is possible to have an abortion with pills, without surgery and anesthesia. This method of abortion does exist, and it, if I may say so, is more sparing for the body.

What is abortion with pills?

This type of artificial termination of pregnancy arose very recently and is recognized in more than thirty countries. WHO considers tablet, or medical, abortion the safest method. Judging by the name, you can guess that abortion is done by taking medications. Its effectiveness is 95-98%, which mainly depends on the correct schedule of tablets and the duration of pregnancy.

Many patients of the women's consultation are immediately concerned about the issue when reading tableted abortion, to what date it makes sense to use it. This type of termination of pregnancy is only up to 6-7 weeks.

The prescription medication has in its composition the main active ingredient - mifepristone - a synthetic hormone preparation. Getting into the body, it blocks the action of the main hormone that preserves pregnancy, progesterone. Thus, the development of the fetal egg will be stopped. In the second stage of medical abortion, tablets containing prostaglandins (misoprostol) cause a decrease in the uterus, which means miscarriage, that is, an independent embryo removal.

How does a tablet abortion take place?

A woman who wants to have a medical abortion is visited by a gynecologist and an ultrasound examination room to confirm the diagnosis, the decision of the pregnancy period and the elimination of an ectopic pregnancy. Tablet abortion is carried out according to the following scheme:

  1. On the first day, 1-3 tablets of mifepristone are given to her (commercial names are mifegin, miefeprex, mytholian). Drinking medicines, the patient remains in the hospital for one hour under the supervision of doctors to monitor her well-being.
  2. 36-48 hours after taking mifepristone, a gynecologist examines a woman and gives her misoprostol, which causes bloody discharge. After watching the patient for 3-5 hours, she is released home.
  3. After 10 days a woman should visit a doctor for the third time for a follow-up ultrasound, gynecological examination.

Tablet abortion: advantages and disadvantages

As you can see, this kind of abortion attracts by the fact that it does not require surgical intervention and is possible in the early stages. By the way, the menstrual cycle is restored quite quickly - in a month. In addition, medical abortion is the least traumatic, since the mucous membrane of the uterus is not damaged.

However, this method is not ideal. When using abortion tablets, the consequences for the female body also arise. If, for example, there is no rejection of the fetal egg, you will need a mini-abortion (vacuum aspiration). With the expulsion of the fetal egg, sometimes there is such severe uterine bleeding that medical care will be required. By the way, there may be unpleasant side effects: vomiting, nausea, pain in the lower abdomen, allergic reactions and increased blood pressure.

Contraindications to the performance of tableted abortion are ectopic pregnancy, kidney, adrenal and liver diseases, gastrointestinal tract, blood, tumor and cystic processes in the small pelvis, scar on the uterus.