Infertility Symptoms – Sex, Age And Lifestyle Factors
Infertility Symptoms – Definitions
When a couple is unsuccessful at having a baby after 12 months of unprotected, regular intercourse, they are considered infertile. Infertility is the incapacity to reproduce.
One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. Severe reactions occur more frequently among childless couples.
Couple who are infertile and who’ve never had a baby are classified under primary infertility.
On another note, couples who classify under secondary infertility are those who have had a baby before but are now having trouble getting pregnant once more.
The Man Factor
Various physical and emotional factors trigger infertility.
Around 30 to 40% of infertility cases in men are attributed to maleness factors like retrograde ejaculation, low sperm count, scarring from STDs, hormone problems, environmental pollutants, and others.
Intake of prescription drugs like nitrofurantoin, cimetidine and spironolactone and even frequent marijuana use can negatively affect sperm count.
Being Female
Pelvic infection, scarring from STDs, endometriosis, ovulation dysfunction, fallopian tube abnormality, tumors, hormonal imbalances, and even poor nutrition are some of these “female factors.” These make up between 40 and 50 % of infertility problems among couples.
Factors contributed by both individuals and unidentifiable factors are responsible for 10 to 30% of all infertility cases.
It has been found that a small number, just 10 to 20%, of couples fail to conceive after trying for a year. It is very crucial for couples to contine trying to have a baby at least for 12 months.
Age Sensitive Causes
Healthy partners both below 30 years of age having intercourse regularly only have a 25 to 30% probability every month to become pregnant. Women in their 20s are at the peak of their fertility. The likelihood of pregnancy for women above 35 years old is less than 10% each month, even less for those beyond 40 years old.
Others Factors Not Related To Age
Infertility is not solely blamed on age-related factors. Infertility may also be worsened by the following:
* Having more than one sexual partner (high STD risk)
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* Pelvic inflammatory disease history
* Males with history of orchitis or epididymitis
* Mumps in males
* Male varicocle
* Health background citing exposure to DES (both male and female)
* Eating disorders in females
* Anovulation and irregular menstruation
* Endometriosis
* A blockage in the cervix or uterine defects
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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