CAUSES OF INFERTILITY

Infertility is suspected when a couple is unable to reproduce within a year of unprotected sex. You might be thinking that infertility is caused by some type of disease or a real disease which makes it difficult to conceive. Actually, it's a little of both. There are those who were naturally born infertile and some were a result of an event and/or a condition.

Often times, infertility is approached with exclusivity; no one wants to really talk about a person's inability to produce an offspring. However, it is a common condition and its causes are also quite more common than you think.

So what causes infertility anyway?

Aside from endometriosis, there are other and less talked about causes of infertility in women. There's early exposure to induced abortion; the removal of fetus from the uterus using surgical instruments or with the use of sharp pointed objects in cases of illegal abortion. Some women who have undergone induced abortion whether through a doctor or by herself will have trouble getting pregnant later on in life.

Another cause of infertility is exposure to drug and substance abuse. Drugs and Alcohol can alter the physiological health of a woman and at the worst cases, cause infertility. Drugs and alcohol have the same effect on women like on men, these substances can cause low sperm count in men and can cause unhealthy, immature egg cells in women. It can also affect the normal menstrual cycle.

Contraceptive pills can also cause infertility, well, not directly of course. In time, when you are dependent on contraceptive pills for protection you are actually putting your self at risk for developing reproductive cancer like ovarian and uterine cancer. Lastly, infertility can also be congenital or you were born with it.

Nevertheless, medical technologies and wonders cannot be stopped by the different causes of infertility in women because these technologies are sprouting everywhere and women who are infertile can be given a chance to become mothers themselves.