There are many women who experience a occasional vaginal bleeding and that coincides with the day of her menstruation. Faced with this type of coincidence, it may be the day you have your period or are having a miscarriage, and where the woman may not know her origin.
If the woman knows that she was pregnant or was expecting a child, she may not accommodate what is happening. The best is See a doctor for a series of tests and thus clarify if the bleeding has occurred due to one case or another.
How to know if it has been a miscarriage?
Abortion is always accompanied by the loss of the embryo when it has been managed over a period of time and has occurred for various reasons. When it happens, it may just be as natural as menstruation and the woman may not realize what has happened.
Generally It is usually shown with a large abundant bleeding, with suspicious clots and even pains that refer to colic. In these cases, the case is usually referred to a doctor and manage the pain with medication.
Know if you have had an abortion It can be quite frustrating, especially if you are looking to have children and you do not know if the implant has occurred and as a consequence an abortion. There are women who can have recurrent miscarriages and before this type of fact it is necessary to take some type of measure.
implantation bleeding
Another type of doubt appears, and that is that when vaginal bleeding manifests, it may be taking place an implantation bleeding. This event occurs when the woman has become pregnant.
During this process there has been fertilization of the egg and sperm and where the embryo has remained implanted in the inner wall of the uterus. From this moment a series of changes take place and where a little bleeding occurs.
This flow can be much smoother and scarcer, with a hint of pink to red-brown and where its duration barely lasts a few days. Compared to menstruation, its duration varies from 4 to 7 days.
In order to clarify this fact, the best test is a pregnancy test. If the result is negative, it may be menstruation, but if the result is positive, it can be confirmed as a pregnancy.
You have to be alert with the type of bleeding, because if the test is positive and there is more bleeding than usual, it may be a ectopic pregnancy, but for this it has to be determined by a specialist. But, what happens when the test is negative and upon suspicion it is thought that it could be an abortion?
Differences between an abortion and a menstruation
a menstruation It presents as reddish-brown bleeding with small clots. The amount can be absorbed completely normally by a tampon or sanitary napkin. It can be accompanied by typical aches and pains and even discomfort in the thighs and back.
The abortion It presents with brown bleeding that turns pink to bright red over the next few days. The clots can become large and some can even have ash-colored tones, due to the amniotic sac. The bleeding can be abundant and where the wipes or tampons cannot normally contain its amount. It can be accompanied by a great and intense pain, even colic may appear. In some cases, fever usually occurs due to the inflation that causes it.
How to identify the cause?
The doctor before a suspicion can perform a pregnancy test. If the test is negative, a blood test can be performed to assess beta hCG values. If the values are equal to or less than 5 mIU/ml it is probable that there is not and has not been a pregnancy.
On the other hand, it can be done an ultrasound test, to try to obtain an image of the inside of the uterus and to be able to analyze if there is any type of structure or incidence in the fallopian tubes or in the ovaries.