REHABILITATION OF WOMEN AFTER MEDICAL ABORTION

The paper presents the results of studying the efficacy of the herbal drug mastodinone in the rehabilitation of women after medical abortion. Fifty primigravidas aged 18 to 40 years without a history of menstrual dysfunction were examined immediately after medical abortion at 5-12 weeks of gestation. A study group (n = 30) received mastodinone only as 30 drops twice daily for 6 months; a control group (n=20) was untreated. The patients kept a menstrual calendar, by rating the manifestations of premenstrual-tension syndrome, the rhythm and volume of menstrual blood loss, and breast pain. Following 3 months, there were breast pain complaints in 23.3% of the women in the study group and in 60% in the controls; complaints of fatigability and lower abdominal pain were reported by 13.3 and 35% and 10 and 20%, respectively. Hyperpolymenorrhea, irritability, and insomnia were not observed in the study group; these were seen in 15; 60, and 5% of cases, respectively. Six months after abortion, complaints were virtually absent in the study group women. All non-rehabilitation women made these or those complaints: facial edemas (25%), irritability (40%), mastodynia (50%), fatigability (45%), and headache (25%). No cases of mastodinone-associated complications or adverse reactions were recorded.

Vitex agnus castus, abortion, pregnancy, pregnancy, interruption, rehabilitation, mastodinone, Vitex agnus castus