What is the impact of Alcohol on your fertility

By Dr. Anubha Singh

All of us know that drinking alcohol is injurious to our health in many ways. As infertility rates in India are increasing at a rapid pace; sedentary lifestyle, age factor, hereditary diseases etc are the main causes behind it. We have to wonder if regular alcohol consumption may have a role in you being infertile. Alcoholic beverages contain a lot of sugar and excessive sugar consumption decreases fertility by contributing to hormonal imbalance, insulin resistance, yeast infection, vitamin and mineral deficiency and lowered immunity. All of which may impair fertility for both men and women.

Now let’s see how alcohol consumption affects the fertility in both sexes:

Female infertility & alcohol:

For women, drinking excessive amounts of alcohol can have a negative impact on ovulation and menstrual cycles, which is essential for conception. Alcohol also depletes the body of vital vitamins and minerals and we know, we need good levels of nutrition to make a healthy embryo and baby.

You just cannot limit the consumption to 1 or 2 glasses, if you're planning to try for a baby, then I would rather suggest to quitting alcohol completely.

Male fertility & alcohol:

Studies have shown that consuming excessive amounts of alcohol lowers testosterone levels

How to prepare your body for IVF

By Dr. Anubha Singh  

IVF, a technique which has seen more than five million babies born worldwide since its

introduction. IVF is very common today and people are aware to the word itself. It is typically performed on women aged between 30-40, there are many myths surrounding various techniques that will help to aid your conception.

If you're trying to conceive through IVF, you'll most likely hear a range of facts and myths about what you can do to boost your chances. It's important that you know what will and won't help you so that you can increase your chances, as well as enjoy the time as much as possible.  

How to increase your chances of having successful IVF:  

• The most common question I get asked is about diet. Being both underweight and overweight can affect a woman's chance of conceiving and delivering a healthy, normal weight baby.  

• Also, exercise plays an important role in fertility, specifically, over-exercise and studies show that women who reported regular exercise had a similar live birth rate compared to women who did not exercise. However, women who exercised four or
  
  more hours per week for 1-9 years were 40% less likely to have a live birth, three times more likely to experience cycle cancellation, twice as likely to have an implantation failure or pregnancy loss compared to women who did not report exercise. However, compared to women who did not exercise, women who exercised regularly for 1-5 years were at greater risk for failure of cycle stimulation, implantation failure, and failure to develop a live birth after a chemical

Tips to fight with male infertility

BPositive Magazine

By Dr. Anubha Singh 

Infertility as we all know is unable to conceive but being unable to make your wives pregnant is known as male infertility. Earlier infertility is considered as women’s problem but many researches have been done in the past which says that men are equally responsible for being infertile.  Today your profession and lifestyle plays a vital role in your fertility like if: 

• You sit on chairs for longer period of time as it can overheat your testicles  
• You place laptops over your lap for longer time; working laptops prompted a greater increase in scrotal temperature — around a 5 degrees Fahrenheit increase (or about 2.7 degrees Celsius) resulting in low sperm count and unhealthy sperm too  
• You wear too tight pants or under wears as it damages the testicles; causes low sperm count and can cause infertility in men  
• You are expose to pesticides or some industry toxins then also chances of catching up infertility are high  
• You smoke or drink too much alcohol  
• You had any past tumors or cancer,  
• And if you are stress which directly affects your fertility are few factors that contributes to male infertility 

So here are few essential tips for men to help to fighting infertility: 

1. Give up drinking and smoking: 

Even if you see a doctor he/she will give first advice to quit smoking and drinking as it badly affects the sperm count. The harmful ingredients in tobacco smoking can kill sperm cells. On the other hand alcohol does you no good either. If you consume too much alcohol then it can reduce libido and affect sperm quality not only this it also destroy the quality and structure of sperm too. 

2. Stay away from stress: 

Do away with stress from your life as it interferes with the sperm-producing hormones making it difficult to make your wife pregnant. To combat stress

What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease?

By Dr. Anubha Singh

BPositive Magazine

Many a times a woman is diagnosed with problems such as PCOS, PCOD, blocked fallopian tubes etc for infertility, another new name intruding into the field of STD infertility is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). It is the next complicated stage of sexually transmitted disease (STD). PID refers to infection of the womb, fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the womb) and other reproductive organs, leading to infertility quandaries.     

Pelvic inflammatory disease develops when microorganisms, like bacteria infect female reproductive organs. Normally the Cervix (the lower part of the Uterus extending into the vagina) acts as a barrier to prevent the entry of disease-causing microorganisms into the inner reproductive organs. During certain disease conditions, the Cervix gets tainted facilitating the entry of microorganisms to the other parts, which might lead to PID.     

What are its causes:     

Although there are diverse grounds for being troubled by the disease, you can get PID through several ways like:  

• having sex with a person infected with Chlamydia (A sexually transmitted disease caused by an organism called Chlamydia trachomitis)  
• If women choose to have multiple sex partners and the ones who are in the right age cohort of conceiving are

Let’s explore what female infertility is all about

ByDr. Anubha Singh

Infertility is very common word in today’s time. According to a report there are about 20 million couples suffering from infertility in India. Now let’s talk about female infertility which means when a woman is unable to conceive despite trying from one year. There are various causes of female infertility; some are direct causes and some are indirect causes.

Direct causes of female infertility are listed below:

Blocked fallopian tubes: Fallopian tubes are needed for transmitting of eggs and sperms. The tube is usually wherein woman’s egg and man’s sperm meet up to get fertilization. When there is a blockage of the tube in one area or perhaps each side, natural pregnancy is not possible. Therefore all the vital fertility checks should be carried out by the infertility specialists to find out the real reason of fallopian tube blockage before starting any infertility treatment.