Infertility Causes – Sex, Age & Lifestyle Factors
Symptoms from Infertility – Definitions
When a couple is unsuccessful at having a baby after 12 months of unprotected, regular intercourse, they are considered infertile. Infertility is the incapacity to procreate.
Couples have different reactions to the news of being infertile. The news can be particularly hard on couples that are without children.
Infertile couples who’ve never had children 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
Several emotional and physical factors can cause infertility.
Infertility cases in men, like low sperm count, retrograde ejaculation, scarring from sexually transmitted diseases, hormone deficiency, and impotence, make up approximately 30-40% of cases.
Intake of prescription drugs like nitrofurantoin, cimetidine and spironolactone and even frequent marijuana use can negatively affect sperm count.
The Woman 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 make up between 40 and 50 % of infertility problems among couples.
Factors from both male and female, including other unknown causes, make up 10 to 30% of 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 Sensitive Causes
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’s fertility peak is during her 20s. The likelihood of pregnancy for women above 35 years old is less than 10% each month, even less for those beyond 40 years old.
More Non Age Related Causes
Age-related factors are not the only causes of infertility. Infertility may also be increased due to the following:
* Having had sex with more than one partner
* Sexually transmitted infections
* Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) history
* History of epididymitis or orchitis in men
* Men who’ve suffered mumps before
* Varicocele in males
* A history that includes exposure to DES
* Eating problems among females
* Anovulatory and irregular menstrual cycles
* Endometriosis
* Defects of the uterus (myomas) or blockage of the cervix
* Long-term disease like diabetes
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