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Factors Causative to Female Infertility
Fertility is the ability to produce healthy offspring in abundance. The term was usually applied to females, but increasingly is applied to males. ...

Date : January 04, 2006

Fertility is the ability to produce healthy offspring in abundance. The term was usually applied to females, but increasingly is applied to males as well because of common understanding of reproductive mechanisms and the importance of the male role. Human fertility depends on factors of nutrition, sexual behavior, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, way of life, and emotions. Enlisted below are some familiar causes of Female Infertility:

Endometriosis: In this condition, the endometrial tissue (the uterine lining that sheds with each monthly period) grows outside the uterus, is a major cause of infertility in women causing painful menstrual periods, irregular or heavy bleeding and possibly, repeated miscarriages.

Ovulation Problem: Any condition (usually hormonal) that prevents the release of a mature egg from an ovary is generally related to ovulation problems causing absent or infrequent periods and excessively heavy or light bleeding (improper sentence formation, abrupt ending & starting).

Poor Egg Quality: Eggs that become damaged or develop chromosomal abnormalities cannot sustain a pregnancy. This problem is usually age-related. The egg quality declines significantly in the late 30s and early 40s.

Age Factor: Age is the single most important factor affecting a woman's fertility. As she matures, the chance for pregnancy decreases and the odds for miscarriage increase. At 25, a woman has a 25% of becoming pregnant during unprotected sexual intercourse. This percentage begins to decrease between the ages of 32 and 34. After that, the decline is steady so that the chance for pregnancy is only 5 to 10% per menstrual cycle after a woman reaches age 40.

Treatment
Now a day's Laparoscopic surgery is being used to remove abnormal tissue or unblock tubes and assisting conception treatments. With regards to ovulation problems ovulation stimulating drugs or follicle stimulating hormones or in-vitro fertilization can be helpful in some cases.

Infertility is a tough situation for women. Many of them conclude that they can't conceive, but that is not true. At times it takes long to conceive and even if then one is not able to, and then these medical aids are there to help one out of these difficult situations.

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