Infertility Factors - Age, Sex & Other
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 inability to have a baby.
Couples respond in different ways after being told they are infertile. Extreme reactions are most noted in couples that are childless.
Infertility in couples who’ve never born children is primary infertility.
On another note, secondary infertility refers to the condition where couples who already succeeded in having a baby are finding problems conceiving again.
The Man Factor
Various factors, both emotional and physical, can lead to 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.
Sperm count may be negatively influenced by marijuana abuse or use of prescription drugs, like cimetidine, spironolactone, and nitrofurantoin.
The Woman Factor
Scarring from STDs, hormonal imbalances, ovulation dysfunction, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, poor nutrition, pelvic infection, tumors, and fallopian tube abnormality are examples of “female factors.” These are responsible for 40 to 50% of infertility in couples.
Risk factors contributed by both the male and the female, in addition to other unknown causes, comprise 10 to 30% of infertility cases.
It is projected that just 10 to 20% fail to get pregnant after trying for one year. It is essential for couples to keep trying to conceive for a year at the very least.
Age-Related Factors
Healthy partners both below 30 years of age having intercourse regularly only have a 25 to 30% probability every month to become pregnant. A woman’s fertility peak is during her 20s. The success rate for women aged 35 and over is less than 10%, and this even much lower for those older than 40.
More Non Age Related Causes
Infertility is not solely blamed on age-related factors. Infertility may also be worsened by the following:
* Multiple sex partners (increases risk for STD)
* STIs
* Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) history
* Orchitis or epididymitis history in males
* Men who’ve suffered mumps before
* Abnormal vein enlargement in scrotum
* A health history including DES exposure (males and females)
* Eating problems among females
* Irregular menstruation and anovulation
* Endometriosis
* Problems with the uterus or the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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