Treatment by intrauterine injection of citral of postpartum and post-abortion metro-endometritis on the basis of placental tissue retention

In cases of infectious metro-endometritis, instead of extremely traumatic and dangerous curettage, we used intrauterine administration of a 5% ethereal citral solution. In this case, the combined action of citral and ether is used. In the ether vapors formed at body temperature in the uterine cavity, citral (volatile phytoncide) is able to more fully and sooner affect the uterine microflora. With this technique, very often we managed to avoid instrumental revision of the uterine cavity even with organized placental polyps. In those cases where time was lost and there was too strong a connection between the polyp and the uterine wall, after the preliminary introduction of citral, we were able to perform curettage under conditions of significantly less infection of the uterus.