Baroness Tonge – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2016-05-05.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Misoprostol is approved for usage in obstetrics and gynaecology in the UK, and if so, for what specific purposes.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Misoprostol is used in adults for the medical termination of developing intra-uterine pregnancy, in sequential use with mifepristone, up to 49 days of amenorrhoea. It is taken as a single 400 microgram oral dose 36 to 48 hours after taking a single 600 milligrams oral dose of mifepristone.
