Inability to achieve a pregnancy include physical and emotional factors
Posted on July 19, 2013 by john in Pregnancy
Health daily - Infertility is the inability to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected sex.
Causes of infertility include a wide range of physical and emotional factors. It is estimated that between 10 and 20% of couples are unable to conceive after a year of attempting pregnancy.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Primary infertility is the term used to describe a couple who has never been able to get pregnant after trying for at least a year of unprotected sex.
Secondary infertility is the term used to describe couples who have achieved at least one previous pregnancy, but who have been unable to achieve a pregnancy.
Causes of infertility include a wide range of physical and emotional factors. Approximately 30 to 40% of all cases of infertility are due to a “male” factor, as retrograde ejaculation, impotence, hormone deficiency, environmental pollutants, scarring from sexually transmitted diseases
decreased sperm count. Some factors affecting sperm count are heavy marijuana or some prescription drugs.
A factor “feminine” as scarring from sexually transmitted diseases or endometriosis, ovulatory dysfunction, poor nutrition, hormonal imbalance, ovarian cysts, pelvic infection, tumor or transport system abnormality from the cervix through the fallopian tubes, is responsible for 40 to 50% of cases of infertility in couples.
The remaining 10-30% of cases of infertility can be caused by contributing factors from both partners or the cause can not be identified. In addition to factors relating to age, increased risk of infertility is associated with the following:
• Having multiple sexual partners, thus increasing the risk of an STD.
• Having a sexually transmitted disease.
• History of PID (pelvic inflammatory disease).
• History of orchitis or epididymitis in men.
• Mumps (men).
• Varicocele (men).
• Eating Disorders (women).
• anovulatory menstrual cycles.
• Endometriosis.
• Defects of the uterus (myomas) or cervical obstruction.
• Prolonged illness (chronic) and diabetes.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
• Inability to get pregnant. A range of emotional reactions on the part of one or both members of the couple regarding childlessness.
• In general, these reactions are greater in couples without children, since the presence of at least one child tends to soften these painful emotions.
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