Some common FAQs about infertility and IVF treatment at our centre

Q1 There is a steady rise of infertility in India. Why is infertility on the rise in India?

Ans.  According to a report published in WHO , from the overall population, around 15-20 per cent couples face challenges in having children. There is a slight increased in percentage in the urban areas as compare to rural areas. The reasons for higher cases of infertility in urban areas are busy, hectic lifestyle, and unhealthy eating habits, being more career oriented, less sexually active etc. Ease to junk food, packed food, smoking, drinking, obesity etc. have a negative impact on the fertility in both males and females.

Q2 What are the new types of treatment available for infertility?

Ans. There are many new techniques and treatments in the field of infertility. Some of the technologies are more about eliminating the human effort as well as human errors. Some of them being are:

• IVF, In vitreo fertilization which is the most common way to treat infertility.
• Assisted Laser Hatching: This technology helps the embryo to better attach to the womb.
• I.M.S.I.,  Intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) is a technique to be better able to assess the structure of the sperm and exclude the sperm with suspected abnormalities from being injected into the available eggs.

Obesity can lower the testosterones in men

Obesity is no doubt a major health challenge worldwide. Being overweight brings plethora of health issues such as heart diseases, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, osteoarthritis and some cancers like colon and breast. And not only these, but obesity highly affects your sex life too. One is considered to be obese when you weigh more than 20% above of your ideal weight.

How obesity can affect your sex life?

Being overweight hinders stamina which is important to sustain sexual performance. It disturbs ones hormonal balance which in turn affects testosterone levels, causing loss of libido or low sex drive. Obesity also affects blood flow to the genitals and lack of blood circulation there causes erectile dysfunction.

Are busy lifestyles contributing to male infertility?

Infertility is common today and has become a clinical problem today affecting 8 to 12 %

couples worldwide. However, usually people think that infertility is a female problem but science has proved both the partners contribute equally to infertility. In-fact, many studies claims that 40% cases of infertility are due to males.

Let’s see how our busy and hectic lifestyle contributes heavily in male infertility. 

Today, major problem in developing countries like India is the growing MNC culture where both the partners are working with erratic working hours and hardly got any time to be together. And of course the work place stress as everybody knows heavily contributes to sub-fertility or infertility in a couple, leading to an inability to have relations during the fertile period.

Today’s generation couples tend to marry late and then plan pregnancy even later, which further worsen the chances of pregnancy. A woman’s reproductive age spans between 15-45