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Precautions After Induced Abortion Surgery

2025-10-5


Some women choose to undergo induced abortion after pregnancy to give up the embryo. Artificial abortion is a commonly used remedy for contraceptive failure, which refers to the termination of pregnancy through surgery or medication. After undergoing abortion surgery, women's bodies and minds will become very weak, so it is important to pay attention to balanced nutrition in daily life in order to better restore vitality. Here are some issues that need special attention after undergoing an abortion surgery, which I would like to share with everyone.

1. Post abortion diet

Abortion surgery mainly uses instruments or drugs to invade the uterus and terminate fetal development, which can cause damage to the uterus and other reproductive systems. After abortion, bleeding and mucosal damage may occur, so the recovery process after abortion will be relatively long. During this period, women should supplement more nutrition and eat regularly three meals a day. During this period, they can also take some Tonic Diet to promote physical recovery.

(1) Egg and jujube soup: Pregnant women can choose to eat foods such as eggs and jujubes after undergoing induced abortion. Prepare some brown sugar, two eggs, and about 10 red dates. Peel off the eggshells and put them all in a pot. Then add the red dates and black sugar powder in order and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

(2) Roast squab medlar soup: medlar is a food for both medicine and food. It is boiled with Roast squab in the same soup, which has a certain improvement effect on women's weakness, fatigue and fatigue after induced abortion. Put a Roast squab and 30g medlar in the pot, add some water and a little salt, and stew until cooked, then you can eat meat and drink soup.

(3) Other dietotherapy: millet brown sugar Congee, litchi jujube soup, etc. are suitable for consumption after miscarriage. After miscarriage, you can match these foods reasonably according to your appetite.

2. How to take care of patients after induced abortion?

(1) Avoid physical labor: Performing induced abortion surgery can cause certain damage to the endometrium. It is advisable to avoid heavy labor such as moving for more than a month after the abortion to prevent the damaged endometrium from healing for a long time.

(2) Pay attention to hygiene: You can only take a shower after 3 days of artificial abortion. It is recommended to use a shower instead of a bath. And prohibit sexual activity for one month to avoid bacterial infection.

(3) Take medication on time: After the artificial abortion surgery, the doctor will prescribe some hemostatic and mucosal repair drugs to the mother. The patient must take the medication in a timely manner and cannot stop using it casually.

What are the precautions after induced abortion surgery?

(1) Take good contraceptive measures: Induced abortion is the process of using medical equipment to extract embryos from the uterus, which can cause significant damage to the endometrium. Therefore, after many induced abortions, the endometrium may become very thin, and in severe cases, infertility may occur. Therefore, for the sake of personal safety, it is important to take precautions to prevent re pregnancy within 6 months after induced abortion.

(2) Prevention of infection: After undergoing induced abortion, regular hygiene work should be done, hands should be washed frequently every day, and cotton underwear and loose outer pants should be chosen as much as possible to maintain breathability in the private area. After the abortion surgery, it is necessary to take anti-inflammatory and anti infective drugs orally on a daily basis under the guidance of a doctor.

(3) Observe at any time: Generally, there will be no symptoms of fever after artificial abortion, but it is important to pay attention to your body temperature. Once the temperature exceeds 37.5 ℃, it may indicate inflammation in the body and you need to go to the hospital for examination immediately. In addition, one should also pay attention to their bleeding condition. If there is excessive bleeding or if it lasts for too long, they should go to the hospital and seek diagnosis and treatment from a doctor.

(4) After undergoing an abortion, it is important to pay attention to your monthly menstrual cycle. After an induced abortion, menstruation usually returns to normal within the same month. However, if menstruation does not occur for 6 weeks after the abortion and there are symptoms such as abdominal pain, it is important to be aware that it may be due to intrauterine adhesions.

(5) Two postoperative follow-up visits (one after 2 weeks and one after 1 month)