Infertility - is the lack of pregnancy in couples of childbearing age after a year of regular sexual intercourse without using contraception. Modern young characterized by recklessness and neglect their own health. How often women and their partners are thinking about how their lifestyle can affect the health of the unborn baby? Rarely.
The reasons for infertility and how to classify them as follows:
- reasons that do not depend on the lifestyle, "objective". This group includes: hormonal disorders, obstruction of the fallopian tubes, cases of incorrect anatomy
- The second group - the reasons which are directly related to the way of life (bad habits, stress, long working hours, etc.)
Unfortunately, this fact is a direct confirmation of their actions. Circulation of parties and presentations, long working hours and bad habits can directly lead to sad results: healthy young people in the prime of life never become parents. It is important to know that among the factors that reduce fertility (ability of a mature organism to produce offspring), there are those on which you and your partner can affect. These are the factors of the second group. Let us dwell on them in detail.
Smoking
Smoking has a detrimental effect on the reproductive function of women, and second-hand smoke is no less dangerous than smoking activity. Studies conducted by Canadian scientists have shown that inhalation of smoke smoldering cigarette as harmful to women undergoing fertility treatment
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Like smoking itself.
But it is not only women suffer from nicotine
. Toxic substances contained in tobacco smoke affect all the terms of fertility
. Smoking also affects the ability of men to conceive a child, since nicotine significantly reduces the libido, even in young people aged 20 to 30 years
. Male sex cells - sperm are updated every three months, but the female ovum - a kind of long-lived
. Their life is calculated in years (12-55)
. During this time they accumulate a lot of toxic substances, including components of tobacco smoke
. In some measure of self-defense nature has taken care of the body: germ cells, poisoned by toxins, lose the ability to fertilize
. But such self-protection often results in serious consequences: infertility among women who smoked ten or more cigarettes a day, is found in the two more often than among non-smokers
. We smokers are twice as likely than non-smokers, children are born dead
.
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and for three years she approaches menopause. Scientists have found that in cigarette smoke polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are launching the process of destruction of eggs. Women who smoke damage not only their own health, but also increase the risk of infertility in the future sons.
Alcohol
In 40% of the cause of male infertility is the abuse of alcohol. For example, smoking can cause irregular menstruation in women, and excessive alcohol consumption - affect sperm production in men. The combination of multiple risk factors can reduce fertility. Therefore, changing certain habits, automatically increases the chances of achieving pregnancy.
Abuse of alcohol - the cause of impotence. Harmful effects of alcohol on the gonads (testes, prostate gland) is also well known. In animal studies, chronic alcoholism caused fatty degeneration and atrophy of the gonads. These changes tend to lead to a reduction or complete extinction of sexual potency.
Surely, devastating effects of alcohol on the central nervous system also contributes to the development of impotence
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both cortical and spinal cord. An important role is played by such effects of alcoholism as neuroses, depression, emotional and volitional instability, uncertainty in the forces, anxiety and the like.
Drugs
The sperm of men who regularly smoke marijuana may lose the ability to fertilize an egg because of the premature "burning". From the ground it depends on just what bodies will suffer more. In women, it is the genitourinary system (drugs cause infertility, and a bunch of gynecological problems), heart, and brain. In men, the first "sets" the liver, for her - the kidneys and the brain, and so on. Impotence can occur in two or three months of active drug.
Almost all drugs are mutagens - substances capable of changing the genetic information. So that their use does affect offspring - and it can manifest itself not only in the next generation.
According to numerous works of contemporary sexologists and psychologists, drug intoxication initially causes a rapid rise in sexuality
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- Uncontrolled attraction, sexual desire and then goes out and it is extremely difficult to recover. It is important to note that the use of any kind of drugs is accompanied by irreversible changes in the gonads, the extinction of sexual desire. Tragedy unfolds extremely quickly, a person can not continue to take drugs, and restore the function of sexual glands can not at once and not always.
But even if you heard the diagnosis of "infertility", do not despair. Modern medicine is now offering a variety of methods to conceive: the drug therapy, and assisted reproductive technologies (IVF, ICSI, surrogacy). However, despite on the opportunities of medicine, the main thing - it does not miss the chance to become parents, take care of yourself and time to see a doctor.
Tatiana Andreeva