[Short-term antibiotic prophylaxis with doxycycline in abrasio residuorum]

The short-lived antibiotic prophylaxis finds wider and wider usage in the present obstetric practice. The authors aim to examine clinically and to use in the obstetric practice short-lived antibiotic prophylaxis with doxycycline after interruption of pregnancy and residual abrasion due to incomplete abortion. The treatment of women from the experimental group was 500 mg of doxycycline per os at once, but 100 mg twice for 6 days in women from the control group in accordance with the common usage. Attention was paid to 3 basic symptoms: temperature over 37 degrees C, pains at the lower part of the abdomen and need of additional treatment. An inference i made that inflammatory complications after the two types of antibiotic prophylaxis does not differ in frequency (p greater than 0.05). The advantages of short-lived usage are evaluated as well.