Symptoms of Infertility - Age, Sex 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.
Couples respond in different ways after being told they are infertile. Extreme reactions are most noted in couples that 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.
The Male 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 is greatly affected by certain factors like frequent marijuana use or intake of prescription medicine such as nitrofurantoin, cimetidine and spironolactone.
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 responsible for 40 to 50% of infertility in couples.
Around 10 to 30% of infertility cases are attributed to risk factors from both male and female and other unknown causes.
It has been found that a small number, just 10 to 20%, of couples fail to conceive after trying for a year. It is essential for couples to keep trying to conceive for a year at the very least.
Age Influenced Factors
Healthy partners both below 30 years of age having intercourse regularly only have a 25 to 30% probability every month to become pregnant. The peak of a woman’s fertility is in her 20s. Pregnancy for women more than 35 years old is 10% less, even lower for those over 40.
Others Factors Not Related To Age
It is not just age or its related factors that causes infertility. Infertility may also be increased due to the following:
* Multiple sex partners (increases risk for STD)
* Sexually transmitted diseases
* PID history (pelvic inflammatory disease)
* Men with epididymitis or orchitis history
* Males who’ve had mumps
* Vein engorgement in the scrotum
* Health background citing exposure to DES (both male and female)
* Eating disorders in females
* Anovulatory and irregular menstrual cycles
* Endometriosis
* A blockage in the cervix or uterine defects
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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