Infertility-Any Queries

Married couples have an inclination to have babies. Some are successful immediately after marriage and some take a few years. These couples feel depressed and try all sorts of home remedies to have babies. Usually the method followed by them is strikingly similar.

They go for self-medication, seek advice about exercises and copulation techniques and try the sex-stimulating herbal medicines. They even visit quacks in the hope of having a child. When nothing works out they reconcile to their fate. The couples then live like strangers under the same roof.

Infertility is not a problem, which starts after marriage. The causes vary, since good health is the result of several years of healthy eating and healthy living. Complex understanding and evaluation with newer research is helping to understand the causes of infertility

• Recent medical illness.
• Medical history (mumps, sexually transmitted diseases).
• Surgical history (operations).
• Occupation (exposure to excessive heat, toxins).
• Drugs (chemotherapy).
• Smoking/ alcohol/ indigestion.
• Erectile or ejaculatory difficulties.

Increasing age reduces fertility in women and chances of successful treatment. In younger woman, a depleted ovarian reserve reduces fertility.

• Gynaecological conditions- Ovulation failure, oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhoea, tubal damage, cervical mucous defects, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, etc.
• Coital infrequency and poor timing.
• Menstrual irregularities.
• Pelvic infection (current or past).
• Recent medical illness like Tuberculosis.
• Smoking/ alcohol/ indigestion.