Are abortion medications safe?

Unexpected pregnancy is common in gynecological clinics or family planning clinics in hospitals. In most cases, they will choose artificial abortion. Many young female friends will also choose to use medication for abortion. So, can medication be used for abortion? Is medication safe? Let's find out together.

What is medical abortion? In recent years, with the increasing number of artificial abortions, intraoperative and postoperative short-term and long-term complications are inevitable. In order to find a safe, simple, mild adverse reaction and effective non-surgical drug for terminating early and mid-term pregnancy. Medical abortion came into being. Medical abortion is currently mainly combined with mifepristone and misoprostol tablets. Mifepristone has the effects of killing embryos, obvious anti-luteal, and anti-implantation. Simply put, it kills the fetal sac through various channels. Misoprostol tablets have the effect of stimulating uterine smooth muscle. The combination of the two drugs stimulates the softening, expansion and strengthening of the uterine contraction of the cervix, thereby greatly enhancing the effect of anti-early pregnancy and achieving successful abortion.

Although medical abortion can reduce women's fear and pain of surgery, it still has the risk of long bleeding time and potential heavy bleeding after abortion. It can only be one of the remedies for contraceptive failure, and medical abortion should never be used as a contraceptive measure. Moreover, medical abortion is suitable for early pregnancy, and there may be a risk of another curettage due to incomplete abortion. In clinical practice, some doctors do not advocate medical abortion.

The average bleeding time after medical abortion is about half a month, and some can last as long as 1 to 2 months. About 1% to 3% of cases require emergency curettage or infusion, blood transfusion and other emergency measures due to incomplete abortion and heavy bleeding. Therefore, for cases with bleeding for more than 2 weeks, curettage should be performed in time to avoid infection or heavy bleeding.

Medical abortion has the advantages of less damage, less pain, no need for surgery, and less mental burden; however, the complete abortion rate of medical abortion is only about 90%, the abortion process is longer, and problems such as large amount of bleeding and longer time after abortion have not yet been solved, and there is a potential risk of heavy bleeding.