Fertility Info

Infertility can be treated in a variety of ways. It can be treated by way of conventional medicine, surgery, assisted reproductive technology (ART) or artificial insemination. Sometimes one treatment will be tried and if it does not prove successful, another will be attempted. In other cases, more than one treatment is combined for optimum results. Approximately two thirds of all couples that seek help for infertility are able to have a baby at some point in time. In an estimated 80 to 85 percent of cases, infertility is treated by way of surgery or drugs. (There is more to read … click here )

Before medicine is decided upon as a treatment for female infertility, a doctor will perform a complete physical exam on the patient as well as ask a multitude of questions about the patient’s present state of health (both physical and mental), medical history and sexual patterns. Some doctors will choose to talk to both partners while other will deal with the woman who is their patient, on her own.

There are some common medicines that are used to treat infertility in women. These medicines include clomiphene citrate, human menopausal gonadotropin (or hMG), follicle-stimulating hormone (or FSH), gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog, metformin and bromocriptine. Let’s take a brief look at each one of these medicines. (There is more to read … click here )

There is a reason behind each infertility test. Each test is used to discover if a piece of the pregnancy equation is working properly or not. The pregnancy equation involves several factors on the male side and on the female side of the equation. Fertility specialists will order tests for the couple based on the results of a physical examination and a complete male and female medical history.

Pregnancy Equation Male Side

The factors for a successful pregnancy that are related to the male side of the equation are: A large enough number of sperm being ejaculated into the woman’s vagina, sperm that are healthy enough to navigate through the cervix and into the uterus. These sperm must then be able to continue the journey up the fallopian tube where they will meet with the Ova (egg). At the egg, they must be able to excrete an enzyme that breaks through the shell of the egg and one lucky sperm succeeds to penetrate into the egg. The sperm need to be able to accomplish each of these tasks if pregnancy is to occur. (There is more to read … click here )