What is oligospermia or hypospermia? Is pregnancy possible? How to increase the number of sperm - treatment

The concept of oligospermia, its classification, symptoms and causes of appearance. How to deal with oligospermia, and is it possible to conception with it?

For any man, the diagnosis of "infertility" sounds like a sentence. As a rule, each such diagnosis has a formulation, that is, the underlying disease, which is the reason for the lack of offspring in humans.

Oligospermia is considered one of this kind of disease. What is oligospermia? How to identify it and how to deal with it? This will be discussed in this article.

Oligospermia: symptoms and causes

• First of all, it is worth saying that oligospermia is called an insufficient number of sperm. If the norm in one milliliter of seed fluid should contain twenty million spermatozoa, then with oligospermia this indicator is several times less
• In addition, quite often, with oligospermia, the very amount of sperm decreases. Normally, the release of seed fluid is considered to be from 2 ml
• Sometimes doctors lower this bar up to 1.5 ml, but this is already a critical feature, and it will be considered the norm only if in such a small amount of ejaculate there will be a large concentration of active and healthy spermatozoa

The causes of oligospermia are divided into those that can be easily adjusted or eliminated, and those that do not depend on the desires and capabilities of a person. Labid reasons, that is, amenable to change, include the following factors:

1. Irlear nutrition, overeating, lack of protein food that promotes active spermatogenesis, and vitamins
2. Wearing uncomfortable, constraining and squeezing underwear
3. Sedentary lifestyle
4. Elevated temperatures (frequent visiting paired or accepting hot baths)
5. Stress and experiences
6. Bad habits (smoking, alcohol)
7. Overweight
8. Work at harmful enterprises
9. Mechanical damage to the genitals (equestrian exercises, frequent bicycle trips)

Also, oligospermia can occur for reasons completely independent of the patient himself and amenable only to medical treatment:

• Hormonal failure in the body of a man (low testosterone levels)
• Genetic pathologies
• Varicocele
• Viral, bacterial and sexual infections
• Chronic diseases of the male genital organs
• Cryptorchrism
• Problems with the thyroid gland.

However, sometimes the occurrence of oligospermia is completely unrelated to any of the above causes, and in this case it is very difficult for doctors to establish the true nature of the disease.

• The problem of detecting such a disease as oligospermia is that it does not show itself in any way
• A man, being sick, feels absolutely healthy, he is not concerned about either pain, weakness, nor ailment
• Often the diagnosis of oligospermia is exhibited by a man only when he and his wife seek a doctor with a problem of long -term lack of a desired pregnancy
• It is sometimes possible to diagnose oligospermia in the treatment of one of the diseases of the reproductive system listed above

Analyzes for oligospermia

In order to diagnose oligospermia, just make a spermogram. However, sometimes the results of the spermogram can be distorted by various factors, to one degree or another, affecting the quality and amount of seed.

Therefore, with bad analyzes of the spermogram, the doctor appoints it again, and sometimes several times with an interval of two weeks. In order to get the correct spermogram data, the patient is recommended to adhere to certain rules:

1. It is advisable to refrain from sexual intercourse for a period of three days to a week - nothing more
2. In the period of preparation for analyzes, it is better to abandon bad habits (alcohol, smoking)
3. Maintaining a certain diet and proper nutrition will help improve the results of the tests (less fatty, fried food and more proteins)
4. It is recommended to refrain from going to the bathhouse, sauna, as well as reception of hot baths
5. It is also advisable to abandon heavy physical exertion
6. Try to avoid stressful situations and experiences
7. It is not recommended to make a spermogram during the treatment of viral, bacterial or chronic diseases, since the results of the analysis can be distorted

To obtain a complete clinical picture and prescribe adequate treatment, the doctor can prescribe a number of additional tests to the patient:

• Ultrasound of the small pelvis
• Hormones tests
• Testicular biopsy
• Blood and urine test
• Research of scrotum and prostate

Oligospermia: degree

As mentioned above, 20 million per 1 ml is considered the norm of indicators of the number of sperm. WHO is based on these numbers. The Ministry of Health leads its norm-60-150 million per 1 ml. Based on all these indicators, the oligospermia is classified into four degrees of complexity of the disease:

• 1 degree - 1 ml of ejaculate should contain from 40 to 60 million active osemenitors
• 2 degree - implies the presence of 20 to 40 million sperm in 1 ml of seed
• 3 degree-5-20 million sperm in 1 ml of sperm
• 4 degree - the presence of sperm in an amount of up to 5 million per 1 ml

Looking at these numbers, you might think that five million spermatozoa would be quite enough for conception the first time. However, you need to understand that on the way to such an unattainable egg of spermatozoa, a large number of barriers await.

Under the influence of the unfavorable environment of the vagina, millions of spermatozoa die, and their brothers will have to overcome a long path of several days.

Because the more mobile, healthy sperm are contained in a man’s seed fluid, the more chances he has to become a father.

Oligospermia. Can I get pregnant?

Oligospermia is considered one of the most mild diseases associated with a diagnosis of infertility. Doctors argue that, regardless of the stage of the disease, it can be cured.

• For this, the patient will need maximum efforts and desire. In addition, the recovery process can drag on for several months. However, you need to understand that at the end of such a difficult path, a man awaits such a desired paternity
• Depending on the degree of oligospermia, its healing can take from the patient from three months to six months. Sometimes it happens that by eliminating all the labile causes of its occurrence, a man can immediately make his soul mate
• In some cases, it takes a couple of months to strengthen immunity and get rid of external factors affecting the progression of the disease.
• Very often, when trying to get pregnant with oligosperma, women are prescribed funds that help eliminate the adverse for spermatozoa of the environment in the vagina
• This technique helps protect a large number of sperm and increases the chances of fertilization

How to increase the number of sperm?

In order to increase the quantity and quality of sperm, a man will need, first of all, to change his lifestyle. Here are some tips to help improve spermatogenesis:

1. Change your diet. The quantity and quality of sperm is extremely negatively affected by fatty and fried food, coffee, tobacco chickens, semi -finished products, fast food
2. But seafood, cheese, corn, nuts, salmon, liver, pumpkin seeds, milk, black caviar and celery have a very beneficial effect on it. It is very important to eat foods enriched with vitamins
3. If there is no way to buy such products, then you need to replace them with vitamin complexes
4. Vitamins C, A, B, E, E, Selenium, Zinc, Folic acid, fatty acids, omega-3 and amino acids are considered useful for seed and microelements.
5. Rejection of bad habits. The consumption of mild alcohol in moderate quantities, in principle, does not carry any danger
6. But smoking, even inconsistent, is quite adversely affecting the quantitative and qualitative indicators of sperm
7. Therefore, at least for the period of preparation for conception to a man, it is better to abandon both alcohol and cigarettes
8. Moderate physical exercises
9. A sedentary lifestyle is exactly the same as excessive loads can worsen the condition of the seed fluid. Therefore, the lazy people need to get up from their beds and computer chairs and go to the gym or to the park to run
10. The fact is that with active actions in the body of a man, testosterone, extremely necessary for spermatogenesis, begins to actively be produced
11. It is better for the same men who are fond of heavy athletics at least for a while to moderate their workouts and try to switch to lighter sports
12. Emotional background. During the treatment and preparation for pregnancy, both partners need to learn how to relax and abstract from all problems. Emotionally complex work should also not cause male infertility
13. Moderate, but regular sex life. Very frequent ejaculation led to impoverish the ejaculate. At the same time, abstinence also negatively affects it
14. Therefore, the married couples need to try to perform intercourse every two to three days-no more often, but also at least

Types of treatment of oligospermia

• Treatment of oligospermia directly depends on its degree. The higher the degree of disease, the more radical the methods can be applied, and the longer the healing period will be
• In the first and some cases of the second degree of oligospermia, it will be enough only to adjust the nutrition, lifestyle and strengthen the male body. Sometimes the treatment of the second degree is accompanied by taking biological additives
• If the cause of the appearance of oligosperma was a hormonal imbalance in the body of a man, then hormonal drugs may be prescribed. Such drugs can align hormonal background and contribute to improving spermatogenesis
• If the disease was provoked by various kinds of infections, then the prescription of the course of antibiotics will be possible. Only after undergoing antibacterial therapy can the disease be considered again, and determine with further treatment

Some stages of oligospermia are due to diseases such as varicocele or Varicose expansion veins in the seed channel. In such cases, it is assigned surgical intervention. Only it is able to save a man of such complex formations.

Another type of surgical intervention is vasoepididimoanastomosis. Such a procedure, as a rule, is applied to patients that have been ill -fried or chronic diseases of the genital organs, after which some obstacles were formed for the outflow of spermozoids.

Treatment with drugs and folk remedies with a lack of sperm

Treatment of oligospermia can be carried out using the following drugs:

• Preparations that block the production of the hormone estrogen (clomid, clomiphen)
• Preparations for active testosterone production (propionate, cypionate, testosterone enantat, testhegon)
• Human chorionic gonadotropin
• Active biological additives (tribestan, proxide, viardo or Viola)
• Homeopathic remedies
• Vitamin complexes and antioxidants

Folk healers offer their methods to restore the proper number of sperm in the seed:

1. Syrup from rosehip flowers. To prepare it, we take a liter of water and seven hundred grams of sugar, cook syrup from them. Then we fill a glass of fresh rosehip petals with this syrup and boil for a couple of minutes
2. Sage tea. In a glass of boiling water we fill up 10 g of plant leaves and leave them for half an hour. We use the resulting infusion on a tablespoon three times a day
3. Infusion of Barvinka leaves. We take seven tablespoons of raw materials and fall asleep into half a liter of vodka. We send the infusion to a bright place for ten days. We consume a tea spoon five times a day
4. We absorb every day in the mouth on a teaspoon of bee royal jelly, or chew on the floor of the spoon of bee Perga
5. We take 200 g of brandy, juice of four lemons, three chicken eggs, 200 g of honey and mix them. We take the resulting mixture half a tablespoon every day for two weeks to a month

How to increase the number of sperm: tips and reviews

• All of the above tips will help men get rid of such an unpleasant disease as oligospermia
• According to the reviews of many women and men, having passed the course of prescribed therapy, they managed to get pregnant in six months. In many ways, success also depends on the professionalism and experience of the team of doctors
• Indeed, in the fight against this disease, several doctors can be attracted: reproductologist, an anchologist, a urologist, a therapist and a gynecologist. Their work applies to each of their spheres, but in the complex they can give such a long -awaited result

However, there are times when attempts remain illegal. In such situations, the doctor may advise the spouses to use the following fertilization methods:

• Spermenomation of sperm uterine
• IVF (Extracorporeal fertilization)
• ICSI (intracitoplasmic injection of sperm)

Do not be afraid of such complex and frightening names. Today, the whole world uses the services of such fertilization. Its only disadvantage is the high cost of the procedure.

However, Fortune smiles at some couples, and they fall under the free program of the procedure. Naturally, the queue for such a program is rather big, but it is worth trying.

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