MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO HAVE CHILDREN
(INFERTILITY)
Sometimes a
man and a woman try to have children but the woman those not become pregnant. Either
the man or woman may be infertile (unable to bring about pregnancy). Often nothing
can be done to make a person fertile, but sometimes something can be done,
depending on the cause.
COMMON CAUSES OF INFERTILITY:
1.
STERILITY: The person’s
body is such that he or she can never have children. Some men and women are
born sterile.
2.
WEAKNESSES
OR A NUTRITIONAL LACK: In some women severe anemia, poor nutrition or lack
of iodine may lower the chance of becoming pregnant. Or it may cause the
unformed baby (embryo) to die, perhaps before the mother even knows she is
pregnant. A woman who is not able to become pregnant, or has had only
miscarriages, should get enough nutritious food, use iodized salt, and if she
is severely anemic, take iron pills. These may increase her chance of becoming
pregnant and having a healthy baby.
3.
CHRONIC
INFECTION: Especially pelvic inflammatory disease due to gonorrhea or Chlamydia
is a common cause of infertility in women. Treatment may help if the disease
has not gone too far. Prevention and early treatment of gonorrhea and Chlamydia
means fewer sterile women.
4. MEN: Sometimes unable to make women
pregnant because they have fewer sperms than is normal. It may help for the man
to wait, without having sex, for several days before the woman enters her fertile
days’ each month, midway between her last menstrual period and the next. This way
he will give her his full amount of sperm when they have sex on days when she
is able to become pregnant.
WARNING: Hormones
and other medicines commonly given to men or women who cannot have babies
almost never do any good, especially in men. Home remedies and magic cures are
not likely to help either. Be careful not to waste your money for things that
will not help.
DAVID AMANGI TENDE- tendsdavid1@gmail.com
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