Infertility Causes - Sex, Age & 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 defined as the inability to reproduce.
One or both partners have varying emotional reactions when they are diagnosed as infertile. Extreme reactions often come from couples who are childless.
Infertile couples who’ve never had children are classified under primary infertility.
On another note, couples who classify under secondary infertility are those who have had a baby before but are now having trouble getting pregnant once more.
Maleness
Several emotional and physical factors can cause 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.
Sperm count may be negatively influenced by marijuana abuse or use of prescription drugs, like cimetidine, spironolactone, and nitrofurantoin.
Being Female
Ovulation dysfunction, fallopian tube abnormality, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, scarring from STDs, hormonal imbalances, pelvic infection, poor nutrition, and tumors are just some of these “female factors.” These are responsible for 40 to 50% of infertility in couples.
Factors contributed by both individuals and unidentifiable factors are responsible for 10 to 30% of all 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 essential for couples to keep trying to conceive for a year at the very least.
Age Influenced Factors
Healthy couples who are under 30 years old and have sex regularly have a 25 to 30% chance monthly of getting 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.
Other Causes Not Age Related
Factors related to age are not the sole reasons for infertility. The risk of infertility is also heightened because of the following factors:
* Having had sex with more than one partner
* Sexually transmitted infections
* PID history (pelvic inflammatory disease)
* Males with history of orchitis or epididymitis
* Males who’ve had mumps
* Varicocele in males
* Health history citing DES exposure (both sexes)
* Eating problems among females
* Irregular menstrual cycles and anovulation
* Endometriosis
* Defects of the uterus (myomas) or blockage of the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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