Infertility Factors – Age, Sex & Other
Infertility Symptoms – Definitions
When a couple cannot have a baby after 12 months of regular and unprotected intercourse, they can be classified infertile. Infertility is the inability to have a baby.
One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as 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.
Maleness
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.
Frequent marijuana use and intake of prescription drugs like cimetidine, nitorfurantoin, and spironolactone may affected sperm count.
Being Female
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 make up between 40 and 50 % of infertility problems among 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 has been found that a small number, just 10 to 20%, of couples fail to conceive after trying for a year. It is crucial that couples continue with their attempts at conception for 12 months, at the least.
Age Sensitive Causes
Healthy couples who have intercourse regularly and are below 30 years old have only a 25 to 30% chance a month of becoming pregnant. A woman is most fertile when she’s in her 20s. Women above 35 years of age have a less than 10% chance of getting pregnant, and this declines as they get older.
More Non Age Related Causes
Age-related factors are not the only causes of infertility. The risk of infertility is also heightened because of the following factors:
* Having more than one sexual partner (high STD risk)
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* PID history (pelvic inflammatory disease)
* History of epididymitis or orchitis in men
* Mumps in males
* Varicocele in males
* A history that includes exposure to DES
* Eating disorders among women
* Anovulation and irregular menstruation
* Endometriosis
* Defects of the uterus (myomas) or blockage of the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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