Infertility – Sex, Age and Lifestyle Factors
Symptoms from Infertility – Definitions
A couple is infertile when they are unable to have a baby after 12 months of regular and unprotected intercourse. Infertility is the inability to have a baby.
One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. Extreme reactions often come from couples who are childless.
Couple who are infertile and who’ve never had a baby are classified under 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
A number of factors, both physical and emotional, can trigger infertility.
Male-exclusive factors such as low sperm count, retrograde ejaculation, scarring from sexually transmitted diseases, hormone deficiency, and impotence, make up around 30-40% of infertility cases.
Intake of prescription drugs like nitrofurantoin, cimetidine and spironolactone and even frequent marijuana use can negatively affect sperm count.
The Female 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 the primary causes of 40 to 50 per cent of infertility cases.
Around 10 to 30% of infertility cases are attributed to risk factors from both male and female and other unknown causes.
It is estimated that just 10 to 20% of couples fail to conceive after a year. It is essential for couples to keep trying to conceive for a year at the very least.
Age Influenced Factors
Couples who are healthy, are below 30 years old, and have intercourse frequently have just a 25 to 30 per cent chance a month of conceiving. A woman is most fertile when she’s in 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.
Other Causes Not Age Related
Age-related factors are not the only causes of infertility. Infertility may also be worsened by the following:
* Multiple sex partners (increases risk for STD)
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* History of pelvic inflammatory disease
* Men with epididymitis or orchitis history
* Mumps among men
* Vein engorgement in the scrotum
* Health history citing DES exposure (both sexes)
* Eating disorders among women
* Anovulation and irregular menstruation
* Endometriosis
* Problems with the uterus or the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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