Male Infertility

Male Infertility

It has been projected that about 30 percent of all infertility problems are produced by males.  Studies initiated by the National Institutes of Health at six universities, are working at trying to explore the infertility consequence of the increase of sexually transmitted disease among the young people, mainly people who lie within the age group of fifteen and nineteen. 

There are several factors that may effect the production and the quality of the sperm. It may be affected by innate and genetic abnormalities, sexually transferred infections, and also Infections of any kind, previous surgeries, environmental and occupational factors, malnutrition and also certain medications. Among the mentioned medications, there are Tagamet, which is used in ulcer treatment, Drugs that is used for treating cancer, certain antibiotics that is used to treat tuberculosis. The other factors that may lead to impotency are heavy smoking of marijuana and cigarettes, heavy intake of alcohol and also undue stress. These mentioned factors are likely top cause impotency and they also lead to inability to ejaculate. 

Varicocele is a varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; it is a curable cause of male infertility. This condition is predominantly found in men who are infertile, but there also have been cases when this condition has been found in fertile men.  

Half of the men, who have varicoceles, have problems and other changes in the semen analysis. These people suffer from low sperm count and sperm mortality. The factors that are said to cause this disease are heat and pressure and toxic substances from the dilated vessels. 

Systemic or a genital infection may cause a permanent or a temporary damage to the male testis. Gonorrhea may also cause such damage to the male genital tract so as to result in a decreased sperm count temporarily. Mumps in an adult male, involves either one or both the testicles and it may also cause severe testicular damage. Fortunately although the sperm count gets reduced, it is still compatible with fertility, this is because in most of the case only one of the testicles suffers severe impairment. 

The infertility testing of men is a simpler process than that taken for females. The easiest is the semen analysis in which the physician examines the freshly ejaculated semen of a male. The test of this semen gives answers to the size the number and the movement of the sperm. Although there is no sharp demarcation between sterility and fertility with respect to sperm count, yet a count of less than twenty to forty mi9llion per cubic centimeter are correlated with decreased fertility.