Patient's question:
My girlfriend is pregnant. She wants to have a medication abortion. She wants to ask the doctor what precautions need to be taken for medication abortion.Doctor's answer:
Medical abortion is a method to terminate early pregnancy. Medications for medical abortion are recommended to be taken two hours before or after meals to prevent food from affecting the drug's absorption. Additionally, there are time-related considerations. It is advised that the duration of menstruation should not exceed 49 days. An ultrasound examination is also required to confirm an intrauterine pregnancy. When undergoing medical abortion, it is important to carefully observe the amount of vaginal bleeding and whether a gestational sac is expelled. If bleeding occurs intermittently every 2 to 3 days, a follow-up ultrasound examination must be performed at a hospital to rule out residual tissue in the uterine cavity.