Infertility in men and women - Treatments

In men, the infertility problems often come from problems with the:

- Semen
- Testes
- Sterilization
- Drugs Problems
- Drinking problems

There are some cases when both male and female are healthy and they still can't get pregnant. Sometimes it is causes by underweight, Sexual Infections, Smoking, Environmental factors.

In women infertility generally refers to the impossibility for a person to contribute to conception it may also refer the state of a girl who is unable to carry a pregnancy until giving birth.

About 27% of couples have difficulties to conceive and about 13 percent need medical assistance. Sometimes, reasons are not known and most of them can't be identified.

Women who are fertile experience a period of fertility before and during ovulation, and they are naturally infertile the rest of the menstrual cycle. Most of the main that generate infertility in woman are linked to ovulation disorders: Sometimes the egg is not releases.

The problems with ovulation may be causes by:

- Womb and fallopian tubes
- Cervical mucus defect
- Endometriosis
- Sterilization
- Medicines
- Alcohol abuse

However, infertility in women is also linked to the person age. Fertility started decreasing during the mid-thirties. Among 35 years old women, 95% will get pregnant after three years of having regularly unprotected sex. Among women of 38 years old, only 75% will get pregnant after three years of having regular unprotected sex.

Treatments for infertility:

- At-home conception kit: In 2007 the FDA cleared the first at home tier one medical device to aid in conception. This insemination method let all the semen to be push up against the cervical ostium for a couple of hours allowing all the sperm to be placed right on the external orifice of the uterus. This tool will be helpful for low semen count, low sperm motility, or a tilted cervix.

- At-home valuation: A take-home baby assessment can favour a best guess estimate compared with women who have succeeded with IVF, based on variables such as the mom's age, duration of infertility and how many times she was pregnant before.

- Medical procedure: Medical treatment method of infertility generally involves the use of fertility medication, medical tool or surgery. Some physicians may start by prescribing a course of ovarian stimulating medication or using a conception cap cervical cap. Other specialists can recommend intrauterine insemination (IUI), in which the doctor introduces sperm into the uterus during ovulation, via a catheter.

If these procedures fail the specialists may suggest in vitro fertilization and related techniques (ICSI, ZIFT, GIFT) which are called assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedures.

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection:

There is another method extensively apply in Fertilization Clinics in UK and around the Europe is the ICSI. The Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) procedure can be used as part of an In Vitro Fertilization procedure that helps to the Women to conceive a baby. The ICSI Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection procedure is the most successful form of procedure for a man who are infertile or which sperm can't get to the egg or get to it but doesn't fertilize it.

Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures generally begin with stimulating the ovaries to increase egg production; after stimulation, the specialists surgically takes one or more eggs from the ovary, and puts them with semen in a clinic setting, with the objective of producing one or more embryos. Fertilization takes place outside the body, and the fertilized egg is reinserted into the woman's reproductive tract, in a procedure called embryo transfer.

Fertility tourism: is the practice of traveling to another region for fertility procedures. It may be regarded as a form of medical tourism. The main reasons for fertility tourism are legal limitation of the sought method in the home town, or better price. In-vitro fertilization and donor insemination are major treatments involved.