IUD induced bleeding and the way of therapy

In a retrospective study containing 2404 cases of IUD induced bleeding problems, the type and timing of bleeding as well as the types of conservative therapy were evaluated. The non-hormonal treatment (uterotonics, calcium, C- and K-vitamin etc.) proved to be significantly less effective (P less than 0.05) than the hormonal therapy (estrogen, gestagen and combined preparations). The rate of effectiveness was 80.1% and 86.7%, respectively. Because the effectiveness of the conservative therapy is 80%, even in the non-hormonal group, the IUD should be removed only if this treatment proves to be ineffective. Attention is drawn to the importance of routine colposcopic and cytological screening.