Curettage is a kind of surgery to scrape off the endometrium or the contents of the uterine cavity, which is also a kind of abortion.
Usually, scraping can be divided into diagnostic scraping and therapeutic scraping, in which diagnostic scraping is mainly used for patients with endocrine abnormality, through scraping to understand the changes of endometrial lining, sex hormone response, the presence of tuberculosis, ovulation and so on, so as to diagnose the endometrial cancer, the cervix and other uterine malignant tumors.
Therapeutic curettage, on the other hand, is mainly applicable to early pregnancy requiring termination of pregnancy, incomplete abortion, overdue abortion, inevitable abortion, retained placenta and gravida, etc. Among them, for early pregnancy requiring termination of pregnancy, suction curettage can be used in the third month of pregnancy, while forceps curettage can be used if the pregnancy is in the third month of pregnancy and for removal of residual substances in the uterine cavity after induced abortion.
At the same time, patients need to pay attention to rest after the operation, appropriate to strengthen the nutrition, and also need to maintain vulvar hygiene, within 1 month prohibit coitus. Patients also need to closely observe their own bleeding, if accompanied by lower abdominal pain, fever and other abnormal phenomena, but also need to actively seek medical attention.
It is recommended that patients should choose to undergo curettage under the guidance of doctors and pay more attention to post-operative care to avoid aggravation of the condition or damage to the organism.