Patient's question:
At 40 days pregnant, can I take traditional Chinese medicine to terminate the pregnancy? Is the success rate high? What precautions should I be aware of?Doctor's answer:
If you are 40 days pregnant, you should first have an ultrasound to confirm an intrauterine pregnancy. If you do not want it, you can consider how to terminate it. Pregnancy termination can generally be chosen between surgical abortion and medical abortion. Surgical abortion is a remedy for contraceptive failure. Due to accidental pregnancy, eugenics, or disease, surgical methods are used to terminate pregnancy. Medical abortion is a way to terminate early pregnancy using medication instead of surgery. The treatment for contraceptive failure is mifepristone and misoprostol. According to your description of traditional Chinese medicine abortion, the success rate is not high.