Endometriosis can Be Caused by Abortion?

Endometriosis is a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus (endometrium) is found elsewhere in the body typically in the abdominal cavity. Many women want to know whether abortion is related to endometriosis or not. Actually, abortion can’t cause endometriosis.

Endometriosis can be very painful, and is the most common cause of infertility in women. Endometriosis symptoms are wide-ranging, and often start in adolescence, but may be under-appreciated and/or under-recognised by the medical and lay communities alike leading to a considerable delay in diagnosis and commencement of treatment.

An abortion is a medical or surgical procedure to electively end a pregnancy. As we all know, some surgeries could cause some infections. Elective abortion may be linked to infection and this is not in dispute (any surgical procedure carries a risk of such). Worldwide, rates of infection in first trimester surgical abortion vary from 0.1%-4.7%.

Women with endometriosis had fewer prior pregnancies, elective abortions, and ectopic pregnancies compared to women seeking care for infertility, who did not have endometriosis. The dispute, however, is not whether elective abortion holds a risk of infection, but rather, to clarify that endometriosis is not linked to abortion. Thus, abortion can’t cause endometriosis.

Endometriosis can seldom be cured. Whereas there are treatments for endometriosis those, which are drug-based, can have serious side effects, and surgery has to be performed by a surgeon skilled in excising the disease thoroughly.

In addition to surgery, herbal medicine named Fuyan Pill can treat endometriosis thoroughly. Fuyan Pill is herbal medicine, which contains herbs to promote blood and Qi circulation, dissolve stasis and dissipate hard lumps. With the "guiding herbs" which can "guide" other herbs to work directly in the reproductive system, the endometriosis can be cured effectively.