Chapter 159 The biggest problem in infertility—sperm activity!
After feeling emotional, doctor Wang Fang returned to work.
However, her department is an obstetrics and gynecology department, which only treats gynecological diseases and childbirth matters, and is not a specialist in treating infertility.
After a moment, she looked up at Xu Min.
"Girl, you are in the wrong department. We are in the obstetrics and gynecology department and we do not do infertility."
"You should go to the 'Department of Reproductive Medicine'."
"Department of Reproductive Medicine?"
"Yes."
Doctor Wang Fang nodded firmly and continued:< br>
“Also, for those of you who have been together for a long time without getting pregnant, you should first check your husband’s physical condition.”
"There are many factors that cause infertility in women, such as fallopian tube blockage, ovarian underdevelopment, inflammation of the endometrium, and more than ten reasons that may cause inability to get pregnant."
"Need to check There are too many projects.”
“But your husband. It’s much simpler. Whether you can get pregnant depends on the quality of your sperm.”
“So, medical science takes the lead in eliminating infertility factors from the simple point of view, starting from the male. Is your husband here with you today?”
Xu Min was slightly startled. This was the first time she understood this knowledge.
He immediately reacted and nodded:
"He's here, he's waiting outside."
"Okay, let him come in, and I'll tell him what's going on. "
"Well, I'll call him right now."
Xu Min stood up and walked to the door.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, doctor Wang Fang also picked up a glass of water to moisten his throat.
In fact, situations like Xu Min's are not uncommon. Every year when she goes to the outpatient clinic, she encounters several couples who are unable to conceive and come to the obstetrics and gynecology department for registration.
Xu Min’s husband is called Liu Qiang, and he is also very young. You can tell at a glance that he is about the same age as Xu Min.
Wang Fang then said:
“You are this patient’s husband, right?
Your wife, don't rush for a comprehensive examination. I'll cancel this number for you two, apply for a new one in the "Reproductive Medicine Department", and then check whether there are any problems with your sperm. "
"If there is no problem, then check where there is a problem with your wife. Do you understand? "
" Got it! ”
With the doctor’s popular science, Xu Min and Liu Qiang quickly registered a new outpatient number for the “Reproductive Medicine Department”.
Following the instructions on the registration form, they finally managed to Only then did I find the "Department of Reproductive Medicine" located in another building.
As soon as they entered the door, countless patients waiting in the department hall looked up. The two of them felt a little embarrassed, and Xu Min even blushed.
After all, those who come to this department for medical treatment are all unable to give birth to children.
Looking at ancient and modern times, it is difficult to talk about this kind of thing, and it is easy for others to discuss it in private.
But after a moment, Xu Min's eyes flashed with surprise. The patients waiting for treatment here are not "crowded", but at least there are many more people than those in the obstetrics and gynecology department...
"Husband , there are so many people here, are they all like us who can’t get pregnant?”
"That's right. Who in the right mind would come to this department?"
The first time they came to the Department of Reproductive Medicine, they felt a little shocked and a little embarrassed.
However, the more embarrassing thing is yet to come.
About half an hour later, the two finally entered the consulting room.
As obstetrician and gynecologist Wang Fang said before, after learning about the two people's situation, the reproductive doctor also took the lead in asking Liu Qiang to test his sperm status.
"You go do a semen test first. Well, by the way, when was the last time you had sex?"
The sudden words made Liu Qiang a little embarrassed, especially since the reproductive doctor in front of him was less than forty years old. , which is not much different from myself by a few years.
He subconsciously touched his nose:
"It seemed like a week ago...she had her period these days, so she didn't have sex."
"Yes. , then you haven’t had any other sex lately? No masturbation, no ejaculation?”
Liu Qiang was stunned and sweatdropped from embarrassment.
Doctor Feng Yan was not surprised. She looked up at Liu Qiang and explained:
"Routine sperm examination requires abstinence for 3-7 days. The reason for the time limit is because of storage It takes about 3-7 seconds for the sperm in the seminal vesicle to complete one metabolism;"
"If If you have sex during this period, the test results will be very inaccurate, which will lead to a decrease in sperm density, an increase in the number of immature sperm, and other factors."
"Since you abstained from sex for 7 days, there is no problem. Pay the fee first, then go to the nurse station to get the semen container, and finally go to the sperm collection room to collect the semen.”
"Okay, okay."
Liu Qiang kept nodding and exhaled heavily.
Soon, Liu Qiang finished paying and got a medical semen collection bottle at the nurse station.
When I arrived at the sperm collection room, I realized that it was just an ordinary room with some revealing posters on the walls. I had to do the rest of the work myself.
Five minutes later, the semen collection was completed. He carefully collected the semen into a bottle and sent it to the examination room according to the instructions.
About an hour later, the results finally came out.
This time, doctor Feng Yan’s face became a little solemn.
"Liu Qiang, your problem is a bit troublesome, asthenospermia and teratozoospermia."
"Male semen mainly depends on three indicators, sperm survival rate, normal morphological sperm proportion and sperm Activity. "
"The normal sperm survival rate is higher than 55%, which means that at least half of your sperm are alive. "
"Among more than half of the living sperm, more than 4% have normal shape and can move forward quickly."
"Look, you randomly selected a total of 286 sperm, 235 of which had head defects. 30 were defective in the middle, 19 were defective in the tail, and only 2 were in normal shape. Son!"
"And the most important thing..."
As she said that, she pointed to the sperm activity column on the report sheet:
"Sperm activity The degree represents the health of the sperm. The higher the activity of the sperm, the greater the chance of pregnancy. ”
"Normally, the proportion of sperm that can move straight forward should be more than 32%, but your sperm not only has a very high deformity rate, but the ratio of sperm that can move straight forward is 0."
"This means that your sperm There is almost no activity, how can it enter the uterus? "
"It is almost impossible to get pregnant normally in your situation."
When the words fell, Liu Qiang was stunned.
Although he is not a medical student and has little medical knowledge, he can completely understand the doctor's simple and popular explanation.
For a moment, he was so confused that he couldn't figure out why the quality of his sperm was so poor.
Not only Liu Qiang, but also Xu Min on the side was full of surprise, especially the doctor's last words made her already anxious mood become flustered.
Is it almost impossible to have a normal pregnancy?
After a moment, she said urgently:
"Doctor, can you take some medicine to treat it?" Doctor Feng Yan shook her head:
"There are currently no drugs to treat sperm activity in the world."
But after finishing speaking, she exhaled slightly and said:
"But I can prescribe some for you. You can try taking vitamin E capsules for two months first.”
“Also, don’t sit for long periods of time, don’t stay up late, try to exercise more, and if you know Chinese medicine, you can also take some Chinese medicine to regulate it.”< br>
The doctor's words finally relieved Liu Qiang and Xu Min's nervousness.
After quickly prescribing the medicine, the doctor looked at the two of them, and finally fell on Liu Qiang.
Added:
"Recheck after one month. If the sperm does not improve, you may want to consider assisted conception, such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization."
After the words fell, the atmosphere in the consulting room suddenly became solemn again.
After a long while, Liu Qiang hummed, then nodded.
After taking the medicine and walking out of the hospital, the two of them were in completely different moods from when they came in the morning.
Liu Qiang walked to the parking lot with his head lowered, not saying a word along the way.
In fact, he and his wife Xu Min had been married for five years, and it was not until two years ago that they decided to start preparing for pregnancy.
In the past two years, although he has never been pregnant, he has never thought that it was his problem.
But now...
"Hey!"
Liu Qiang sighed in his heart, and a strong sense of inferiority and guilt came to his heart...
Xu Min on the side also felt Liu Qiang's feelings. Her mood changed. As she opened the door, she quickly stepped forward and took the initiative to hold Liu Qiang's right hand:
"Hubby, it's okay, come on!"
"The doctor has said that if we pay attention to our schedule, don't stay up late, and take some Chinese medicine, we will definitely be able to get pregnant."
Liu Qiang felt a little better and forced a smile:
"Well, we will definitely get pregnant!"
And just when Liu Qiang and Xu Min left When leaving the department building, in the reproductive technology clinic, an intern was discussing with Feng Yan:
"Teacher, Liu Qiang's patient just now... his condition is so serious that he even had to undergo a second surgery. IVF may not lead to pregnancy, so why don’t you tell them the truth?”
Feng Yan sighed slightly:
"You don't have enough work experience. The two of them are obviously not mentally prepared. If you tell them directly, they may not even be able to conceive an in vitro fertilized baby. Do you think they will accept it?" I don’t know what’s going on at home.”
“I have seen several men with severe weak sperm. She was suffering from severe symptoms and divorced within a few days after returning home, so..."
"Let them take some medicine to try it out first, and then tell them during the re-examination next month; I estimate that after this month, They can also check online and be mentally prepared."
"Stop talking, just call a number."
......
On the other side, Qingshan Pharmaceutical.
Since noticing the growing disease of infertility, Zhang Yang has indeed developed a keen interest in it.
In addition, he was originally a drug researcher, and currently Qingshan Pharmaceutical happens to have a "sAC male contraceptive" that is somewhat related and comparable to the above.
So in addition to normal work, he The rest of the time is almost spent on researching infertility.
In the end, he planned to focus on the idea of improving male sperm activity.
First of all,
the factors responsible for female infertility account for only 35%, and there are as many as ten kinds of causes of female infertility. Even if a certain problem is solved, the impact will be very small.
Men are different.
Male infertility factors account for up to 45%, of which asthenozoospermia (insufficient sperm activity) and abnormal sperm are responsible for up to 90%.
In other words, if a drug can be developed that can increase sperm activity and improve the rate of abnormal sperm, it means that the problem of male infertility can almost be completely solved.
This data is quite considerable even if included in the total number of infertility cases.
While Zhang Yang was immersed in the process of collecting large amounts of information from major websites, Ren Xiaomin pushed open the door and walked into the office.
"Zhang Yang, I have contacted Liu Zhiyuan, the great medical V who criticized us, and sent him a lawyer's letter."
"At the same time, the rumor on Weibo has spread to us. I also reported the article about the side effects of 'sAC male contraceptive pill' to the Weibo official, and it was also removed from the shelves! ”
“But!”
“Liu Zhiyuan’s article criticizing us for not developing contraceptive pills and suggesting that we develop infertility drugs is still up;
I contacted the Weibo official, The official said that this article did not violate the rules and belonged to the user’s freedom of speech, so there was no way to deal with it.”
Zhang Yang stopped what he was doing and made a cup of tea for Ren Xiaomin himself.
Of course he has not forgotten this matter. After thinking for a while, he frowned and said:
"The article spreading rumors about 'sAC male contraceptive pill' will be removed from the shelves. By the way, do you know who is behind it?"
Ren Xiaomin took a sip from the teacup and shook his head:< br>
“This big V Liu Zhiyuan is a veteran. Our legal team and I sent him a lawyer’s letter, but he didn’t panic at all, was well prepared, and even wanted to apologize. None.”
“Later we found out about the MCN company he worked for—Dream Media. This MCN company mainly undertakes public relations and marketing tasks for some large companies;
I guess. Either the contraceptive pill company is behind this, or the condom company hired trolls to spread the rumor, but we don’t know who it is.”
Zhang Yang nodded, this kind of thing can only be investigated slowly, not in a hurry!
He immediately returned to his desk, glanced at the information on the computer screen, and said:
"Brother Ren, I have thanked you for keeping an eye on this matter. Are there any new developments?" You inform me!”
“Okay!”
Ren Xiaomin agreed, and then said:
"What about their article that criticized us for not developing contraceptive pills and suggested that we develop infertility drugs? If Weibo officials don't deal with it, will we just let it continue to hang?"
" I have been reading the comment section frequently recently, and many people do agree with his point of view.”
“Some infertile patients have even been affected by this. I actually went to the comments on our official Weibo and left a message, hoping that we can start the research and development of 'infertility drugs'."
"These patients are really pitiful, but I will go online at that time. In case of fermentation... we will be passive."
As he said this, Ren Xiaomin also stood up from the sofa and walked to Zhang Yang's office computer.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhang Yang's computer screen from the corner of his eye and was stunned for an instant.
He has also worked in a pharmaceutical company for more than 20 years. At a glance, he could see that Zhang Yang’s computer screen was filled with research and development information on infertility drugs!
This is it!
What do you want to do? !
Two seconds later, his eyes widened and he said in surprise:
"Zhang Yang, you don't really want to develop infertility drugs because of that article, do you?!"
"We can't just do something because of what others say. Besides, we are not infertile at all. The research and development project of infertility drugs, if you really want to make some progress from scratch, I don’t know how long the year of the monkey has passed!”
Zhang Yang smiled slightly, he could understand Ren Xiaomin’s surprise.
However.
Who said no?
"Brother Ren, although we have a drug that does not treat infertility, it can be considered to be close to male sperm activity."
"So, I want to start from this angle."
(End of this chapter)