Male Infertility:
When it comes to men, one should concentrate in their sperm cells. The amounts produced and their health state is crucial. Hundreds of millions of sperm cells are produced in an average male, if your sperm cell production is bellow 20 million sperm cells per cm3, then it will begin to affect fertility.
Not only sperm cell quantity makes a difference, but also sperm cell quality. If the percentage of abnormal sperm cells such as ones with two heads is too high then it will have a negative impact. Sperm cells should also have active tails and at least 50% of them must swim in straight lines.
Treating Infertility by Changing Your Lifestyle:
Is there a way to help women conceive? Yes. For some people it can be as easy as small changes of lifestyle. Making sure you keep healthy or improve your health state could be a key factor. People who:
Smoke or drink
Are very underweight or are very overweight
Keep an unhealthy diet or are lacking folic acid in their diet
Female Infertility Treatment:
- If the change of lifestyle doesn’t work for you then you might be interested in the following, depending on your case.
- Women whose infertility is affected by twisted oviducts (fallopian tubes) could use a technique that uses minuscule utensils that keep the oviduct open, however, this could damage the delicate oviduct which would make it impossible for the woman to obtain her baby naturally.
- Women whose infertility is affected by hormones can consider using synthetic hormones such as fertility drugs, these chemicals stimulate the woman’s body to produce and release a mature egg cell from the ovary. Some work by tricking the woman’s body to make more FSH, this stimulates the production of egg cells by the ovaries. Women that don’t produce FSH themselves can be given human hormones which stimulate the ovary directly. Other fertility drugs can be used for similar effects like the maturing of egg cells when they can’t be released from the ovaries.
Male Infertility Treatment:
Men who have a small sperm production problem then they should make sure their testes don’t get too warm since this lowers the sperm cell production, it is advisable to:
Take cool showers or baths
Use baggy underwear and loose clothing
It’s not easy to treat male infertility so women used to go through treatment with which healthy sperm cells were given by an unknown donor (most of the time also mixed with some of her partner's sperm cells).
Treatment by IVF:
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a technique in which fertilization is taken place outside a woman’s womb (in vitro). It’s a method that’s usually used if other techniques haven’t worked. The ovulatory process is controlled hormonally. Then the ova (egg cells) are removed from the ovaries. A sperm cell is then injected into an ovum (egg cell) for fertilization to take place. Now the zygote (fertilized egg cell) is transferred into the patients’ uterus.
This new technique solves the problem for almost all men with fertility problems, but IVF is a very delicate subject since many people see it as a positive or negative way of conceiving a baby. Some people find it unethical.
Adoption:
If you are one of the unfortunate couples and have no way of having your own baby, not even through IVF, then it’s advisable to consider adoption.
