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.
One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. The news can be particularly hard on couples that are without children.
Infertility, in couples that have never had a child, is referred to as 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.
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.
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 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 very crucial for couples to contine trying to have a baby at least for 12 months.
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. A woman’s fertility peak is during her 20s. Women above 35 years of age have a less than 10% chance of getting pregnant, and this declines as they get older.
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:
* Having more than one sexual partner (high STD risk)
* STIs
* Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) history
* Orchitis or epididymitis history in males
* Mumps in males
* Vein engorgement in the scrotum
* Health background citing exposure to DES (both male and female)
* Eating problems among females
* Irregular menstruation and anovulation
* Endometriosis
* Uterine problems or a blockage in the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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