WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS: An Infertile Seed

WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS: An Infertile Seed

Fertility is this term going well with agriculture industry. Fertility is all about a seed converting into life, say it plant, animal or human. Seeds that do not reproduce are infertile. Is infertility a big term? I think to the once it is associated with, life is at a stand still. What do you think? Imagine, you identify that you one of these and cannot be a father. In Asian countries one can expect women to still continue with the husband even after identifying the syndrome. What about Europe, America or Australia. Not just men, if this term gets associated with a woman, then what can happen?

Genetic aspects of human reproduction are studied in the clinical practice as well as at the basic level using experimental animal models. Usually clinical recognition is attempted by the detection of mutations associated with an infertile phenotype of the male or female partner. Mutations can be present at the chromosomal, which are microscopically visible, as well as at the gene level studied using molecular techniques. Presently, the most commonly found genetic defects underlying male infertility are different types of chromosome aberrations and Y chromosome micro-deletions in one of the three AZF regions. While female reproductive failure may also be caused by chromosome aberrations, particularly in X chromosome or by chromosome translocations, the most common conditions associated with female infertility seemed to be complex in genetic etiology.

 An Infertile Seed

Psychosocial counseling may be beneficial and more readily accepted in the later stages of treatment, when social networks are at their weakest, and also after repeated treatment failure.

Approximately 8-10% of couples experience some form of infertility problem. Infertility is exclusively a female problem in 30-40% of the cases and exclusively a male problem in 10-30% of the cases. Problems common to both partners are diagnosed in 15-30% of infertile couples. After thorough medical investigations, the cause of the fertility problem remains unexplained in a minority of infertile couples (5-10%)