How To Improve Fertility

It is highly advised for the couples who are planning to have a healthy baby that they better undergo a simple life style change for improving fertility. Many non-prescriptive nutritional supplements are made available by various pharmaceuticals for aid. Lot of guidelines and medicines are available to improve fertility. Most of them claim that the ingredient are naturally available without any doctor’s prescription to improve fertility, but does not necessarily mean that it is safe to take. These ingredients may have unknown side effects with its toxicity which may lead not to improve fertility.

Most of the products are believed to contribute for improving fertility of the couple’s. They work by the way of increasing the sperm counts and motility for male and quality of female eggs. In other words, it is simply said that improving fertility is nothing but improving overall reproductive health. For improving fertility, it is actually done at hospital’s operation theatre. Proven clinical records support many main active ingredients of the locally available medicines.

Outstandingly the test results showed on improving fertility especially men who have inadequate amounts in their sperm. But the ability to stimulate sperm motility is still not clear. Like wise many studies are conducted with the same substance on improving fertility but no proof is established with respect to pregnancy, therefore always seek medical advice before beginning any treatment program. Future investigations on Carnitine will be an eye opener in improving fertility.

Vitamin E also supports the sperm motility. Even foods with high in Zinc like Oysters, beef, pork, turkey, lamb, and nuts can increase fertility. In natural herbal roots like Ginseng, a Chinese Herb, can increase fertility by increasing sperm counts, motility, sexual stamina and reduce fatigue. Keep in mind that you always improve fertility under the close supervision of a physician. Authentic information is available in books published by specialist doctors are worth to read to improve fertility. It is suggested to follow your physician's advice after your sperm test reports.

Problems in using basal body temperature recordings in an infertility clinic

Objective

To determine the degree of accuracy and consistency with which a group of observers could assess basal body temperature recordings in infertile patients.

Subjects and methods

A group of gynecologists, who were considered clinical experts in interpreting BBT charts, and a group of 'non-experts', general practitioners, junior hospital staff and technicians who do not regularly interpret BBT charts clinically, were asked to score 60 temperature charts drawn at random from the hospital records. The accuracy of the predictions could be assessed as full hormonal profiles had been obtained for each of the charts.

Charts from 60 normal and infertile women were evaluated to determine:

a) if the cycle was ovulatory;
b) if the cycle was from a normal woman, from an infertile woman or one in which conception occurred;
c) the day on which ovulation occurred.

Results

The 'expert' group obtained slightly better results than the 'non-expert' group, but neither group did particularly well.

About 80% of the temperature charts were correctly interpreted by both groups as being either ovulatory or anovulatory, but only about half were correctly interpreted as being from a normal, infertile or a pregnant woman.

In ovulatory cycles, the day of ovulation was predicted correctly for only about 44% of the charts.

Conclusion

"Predicting the day of ovulation from temperature recording, particularly in infertile women, is clearly unjustified."

Male Fertility Treatment more common than IVF

A study was presented Wednesday at the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embriology's Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. It showed that a male fertility treatment is now more common than in vitro fertilization on Europe, revealing that more men than women are having fertility problems.

The report found that intracytoplasmic sperm injection -- in which a single sperm is placed into an egg using a syringe and is used when a man has a low semen count or poor sperm quality -- accounted for 52% of assisted reproductive procedures in 2002, compared with other IVF techniques, which accounted for 48% of the procedures (Roberts, BBC News, 6/23). Andersen said there likely are many reasons for the increased proportion of ICSI treatments, including a rise in male infertility, perhaps due to declining sperm quality and environmental factors, London's Independent reports (Frith, Independent, 6/23). An estimated one in six couples experience fertility problems, according to Reuters AlertNet (Reaney, Reuters AlertNet, 6/22).

Taken from www.medicalnewstoday.com