Cause of Infertility

When the cause of infertility is taken into account it should be remembered that it is a multi facial and multi factual syndrome. This is because the cause of infertility varies from person to person and male to female. Apparently there could be three broad causes of infertility. It has been shown that one third of infertility is due to the female while another one third is due to the male and the last one third is because of the both male and female. But there are quite a percentage of reasons that causes infertility and these are induced by environment.

Environment Infertility Causes

Natural selection provokes infertility up to a certain degree. Exposure to radiation for a period of time and amount can lead to infertility. Addiction to drugs can also be a fatal factor.

Male Infertility Causes

The male causes of infertility include:
Retrograde ejaculation
Hypogonadism
Development of Antisperm antibodies within the body
Erectile difficulties or impotence.

Female Infertility Causes

The causes of infertility are greater in woman for the simple reason that the woman’s body is a much more sophisticated machine than that of the man’s. Another reason behind this is the fact that it is the woman who takes up all the responsibility of carrying the fetus for nine months and ultimately delivering it. This requires a lot of sustainability and any failure of this complex synchronization may lead to a failure to conceive or a miscarriage in the latter. Anyhow, all these failures can be enumerated as infertility.

These are the general causes of female infertility:

• PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Endometriosis
• Ovulatory Disorders
• POF or Premature Ovarian Failure
• Uterine Factors
• Multiple Miscarriages
• LPD or Luteal Phase Defect
• Sperm factor, or the inability to recognize male sperm cells.

Apart from all these there are also an ailment called secondary infertility. This happens when the woman is already having children. She is not actually infertile in this case but her body is not responding any more to sperms.