Male Female Infertility

Causes of infertility

  The subject of infertility is very difficult to approach because people don’t feel comfortable talking about sexual matters of any kind,not even with a fertility specialist. Most of the women think that they must fulfill their maternal role and can’t imagine the fact that they might have an infertility problem. On the other hand men consider that if they have an infertility disorder that makes them less virile. It is very important to know that infertility ,whether is caused by male or female factor, doesn,t mean sterility, with adequate treatment a successful pregnancy is possible. Secondary infertility is the inability to conceive after having already one or more successful pregnancies. Until 50 years ago infertility problem used to be consider a woman’s disease. In our days it has been proven that almost half of infertility problems are caused by a male factor.

Female factor infertility

represents the inability to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term. The main cause of women infertility is ovulation problems. The symptoms of this problem are irregular or non-existent menstrual cycles. Other causes of female fertility problems are polycystic ovarian syndrome,hostile cervical mucus,uterine and pelvic abnormalities and secondary infertility.

Male factor infertility

represents the inability of a man to fertilize a woman’s egg. The causes of  this fact are multiple:low sperm motility,varicocele,abnormal shape of the sperm,low sperm count (oligospermia). Low sperm motility means that the ability of the sperm to swim forward and to penetrate the egg is not efficace. So if the sperm’s movement is slow or not in a straight line they might not be able to rich into the cervical mucus. A normal motility is when two thirds of the sperm can invade the cervix and penetrate the egg. When a fertility test that shows that less than 8 milion sperm per milliliter of semen have a normal motility, means that the male patient has a low sperm motility.