What are the misconceptions about infertility treatment?

Infertility refers to couples living together with normal sex life, no contraception not pregnant for more than one year. At present, many people on the infertility examination and treatment in the understanding of people there are many misunderstandings, now talk to you about this aspect of the common problems. 1, infertility is the woman’s business, the man does not need to check Modern medicine has confirmed that both men and women may have causes of infertility. The female factor accounts for about 50%, including: ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina and other diseases. Male factors account for about 40%, including: semen abnormalities, vasectomy, genital malformations and systemic diseases. There are also male and female factors that account for about 10%, such as: lack of sexual knowledge, immunologic factors, psychological reasons, and so on. There is also unexplained infertility. Therefore, even if the woman checks the cause, it does not mean that the man is normal, on the contrary, it is possible that the woman is normal, and the man has no problem. Moreover, many causes of infertility are related to miscarriages, surgeries, and age, so even if the man had a history of fertility in the past, it cannot be ruled out that he has a problem now. Therefore, the quickest way is for both partners to be examined at the same time according to the doctor’s advice, so that the cause can be clarified as soon as possible and a treatment plan can be formulated. 2, menstrual disorders can treat infertility by regulating menstruation Clinically, many of the diseases that cause infertility are indeed manifested as menstrual disorders, such as: polycystic ovary syndrome manifested as scanty menstruation (menstruation only a few times a year), obesity, hairy, difficult to conceive, miscarriage, etc.; uterine polyps or uterine fibroids lead to prolonged menstruation (more than 7 days), menstruation increased; uterine adhesions and pituitary hypoplasia can lead to reduced menstrual flow. However, some doctors in the clinic lack knowledge of these diseases that cause the appearance of menstrual disorders, and will only use drugs to regulate menstruation treatment. Many patients also believe that as long as their periods are regular, they will be able to get pregnant, so they come to the clinic with the goal of using medication to get their periods. They do not realize that regular menstruation is the same as normal ovulation. In fact, simply using medication to maintain regular menstruation and normal ovulation are two different things, so simply regulating menstruation is not a treatment for infertility. You should follow the scientific method, first clarify the cause of menstrual disorders, and at the same time conduct other infertility-related examinations, and then treat the symptoms. 3. Children born after assisted reproduction treatment are not as healthy as those conceived naturally As IVF technology has an in vitro culture system, both gametes and embryos will stay outside the human body for a period of time, so it is understandable for people to have this concern. However, from the current record, the occurrence of birth defects with IVF techniques is not statistically significantly different from children born after a natural pregnancy, i.e. there is no significant increase in birth defects. However, because IVF is sometimes multiparous, the infant weight statistics are lower than for normal infants. And statistics show that normal babies are also born with low weights; also, since most of the people who choose IVF are infertile, the disease that causes infertility may itself contribute to the low weights of the babies. However, at present, there is no conclusive evidence to show that low weight is related to IVF. 4.Since the assisted fertility treatment is carried out, it is best to give birth to many babies or choose the sex of the fetus This is really a misunderstanding of the patients. Due to the application of ovulation stimulating drugs, the rate of multiple pregnancies in fertility treatment is about 5-20%, which is higher than that of the normal population. However, in multiple pregnancies, pregnant women and fetuses often have a variety of complications, which can seriously threaten the safety of mothers and infants, and with the increase in the number of fetuses, perinatal mortality and morbidity also increased significantly, even if more than one preterm baby survived, its physical and mental qualities may also decline. Therefore, elective fetal reduction must be performed in pregnancies of more than three fetuses. The ultimate goal of performing assisted conception techniques is to obtain a healthy child, and a singleton pregnancy is the safest. As for gender selection, although there is such a technology (pre-implantation embryo genetic diagnosis that is PGD), it is only for some patients with genetic diseases, and the cost is higher than that of ordinary IVF, and the pregnancy success rate is low. 5, IVF charges so expensive, the success rate should be very high IVF treatment costs are indeed not cheap, but humans are naturally animals with lower fertility. If both men and women are disease-free, the probability of pregnancy is only 10% per month under normal circumstances. If both the man and the woman have a disease, then the success rate is only about 1%. Nowadays, the success rate of IVF has increased to about 40%, which is far beyond the limit of human beings. However, IVF is after all a science and it is impossible to achieve 100% success rate. At present, the success rate of the best foreign IVF centers can only reach 50%. 6, can not apply any other drugs during ovulation due to physical, environmental or mental factors, many patients may suffer from colds, coughs and other common diseases during ovulation, most patients are worried that the treatment of medication will affect the effect of ovulation or the future health of the child, so even if the symptoms are very serious, do not dare to use the drug. In fact, it is not, because even after pregnancy is not possible to ensure that always healthy, so in fact, many drugs can be applied during pregnancy, such as penicillin, etc., as long as the attention of the drug description of the impact on pregnant women can be. 7, repeated early pregnancy test less than 14 days after embryo transfer We do not recommend that patients repeatedly check with early pregnancy test paper. Almost all of the patients in the embryo transfer will be in the drugstore to buy early pregnancy test paper repeatedly test hope to be able to know whether the pregnancy early. Such anxiety is understandable, but the false positive and false negative test results of early pregnancy test paper are relatively high, the accuracy is very poor, and repeated unscientific methods of testing will easily lead to great joy and grief, and emotional stress will easily lead to the failure of abortion preservation. At present, the only accurate way is to take a blood test on the 14th day of the menstrual cycle. If the HCG level starts to rise rapidly and increases exponentially within 2-3 days, it is generally considered that you are pregnant. If the HCG level does not plateau, it means that there is no pregnancy. Some patients have a slow rise in HCG levels, and most of these patients have a smaller chance of getting pregnant. 8, excessive rest after embryo transfer Moderate rest after embryo transfer is necessary, but generally only need bed rest for about half an hour to resume normal work and life. We don’t recommend long time bed rest, firstly, it doesn’t help to improve the success rate, and secondly, long time bed rest will easily lead to irritability, limb fatigue, and even depression, which is unfavorable to the success rate. Therefore, we suggest resuming normal activities after a short rest, but avoiding strenuous activities and fatigue. There are precedents of patients who were in a particularly good mood after transplantation and then went shopping everywhere, resulting in failure after excessive fatigue. In conclusion, women’s fertility status peaks around the age of 28 and declines significantly after the age of 35, so people should try to have offspring at an appropriate age, so older infertility patients should try to take active fertility treatment.