SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF MALE INFERTILITY
LIST OF SIGNS.
- Testicle pain or swelling or lump in the penis or testicles
- Recurrent respiratory infection
- Inability to smell
- Changes in sexual desire
- Issues with ejaculation
- Problems maintaining erection
- Small frim testicles
- Changes in hair growth
- Altered sexual desire
- Decreased hair or facial hair
- Blood in the semen
- Hormones imbalance
- Defects of tubules that transport sperm
- Pain during urination(ejaculation)
- Antibodies that attack sperm
- Ejaculation issues
- Small volume of fluids ejaculation
- Difficulty maintaining erection(erectile dysfunction)
- Tumours
- Infection
- Obesity
1.TESTICLE PAIN OR SWELLING:
*Testicle pain accompanied by nausea,fever,chills or blood in the urine.
*Pain can occur in the area between the scrotum & anus/testis/penis.
*Prostatitis pain & swelling inflammation or both of the prostate gland.
*Trauma or injury of any type to the testicles can cause severe pain &discomfort (or) some bacterial infection.
2.RECURRENT RESPIRATORY INFECTION: (RRI)
*RRI means more than 3 or 5 (sinusitis,bronchitis,otitismedia) above disease seriously defined as RRI.
*It associated with fever/cough/sore throat & rhinitis.
3.INABILITY TO SMELL:
*Loss of smell(sign of infertility)associated syndrome is called KALLMANN SYNDROME.
*Most untreated peoples become infertile.
4.CHANGES IN SEXUAL DESIRE:
*Mostly testosterone starts to slowly decrease across 35 years.
*It typically goes down but it could be faster for some men.
*This could have some effect on your sex drive or your partner is experiencing a sexual difficultly.
*Such as pain during sex or sexual problems.
5.ISSUES WITH EJACULATION:
*There name called sexless enjoyment (or) early ejaculation/rapid ejaculation/premature ejaculation.
*Delayed Ejaculation(DE).
- Impaired Ejaculation unable to Ejaculate sometimes its a condition in which it takes an extended periods of sexual stimulation.
- For men to reach sexual climax & relax semen from penis.
- Ejaculation means expulsion of semen from penis.
- Only 30 minutes of sexual stimulation to reach orgasm & Ejaculation.
*Premature Ejaculation(PE)
- Its means Ejaculation happens when sooner than a man.
- Orgasm & emission of semen occurring just before or shortly after beginning sexual intercourse eg/sexual inexperience.
- Ejaculation divided into 2.
- Emission.
- Expulsion.
6.PROBLEMS MAINTAINING ERECTION:
*Problem maintaining erection /erectile dysfunction.
- Impotence occur when you are unable to achieve an erection & having trouble.
7.SMALL FRIM TESTICLES:
*Small frim testicles to reduced sperm density reduced testosterone level.
- Abnormal testicular (vol<12ml in adult men).
- Normal testicles range from (16-20 ml) or 4*3*2 cm in size.
- Average length 5.2 inches.
8.CHANGES IN HAIR GROWTH:
*(AGA) Androgenetic Alopecia is a common of hair loss in men up to 60 %lower.
9.ALTERED SEXUAL DESIRE:
*Altered sexual desire due to stress, habits of alcohol consumption ,tobacco chewing drug use or relationship problems.
- Person stress caused by a lack of desire to engage in any sexual activities.
10.DECREASE FACIAL OR BODY HAIR:
*Decrease facial or body hair or other sign of a chromosomal or hormonal abnormality.
- Can cause low sperm count.
11.INFECTION:
*This include inflammation of testis and some sexual transmitted disease.
- Some infection can cause with sperm production that blocks the passage of sperm.
- Eg/hepatitis B virus, tuberculosis, mycoplasma streptococcus faecalis.
12.HORMONE IMBALANCE:
*Hormone imbalance can also cause infertility in men.
- But is a less common infertility.
- Factors in men that it is in women.
- LH luteinizing hormone.
- FSH follicle stimulating hormone cause the testes to produce testosterone & sperm.
13. DEFECTS OF TUBULES THAT TRANSPORT SPERM:
*It means ejaculatory duct obstruction or blockage can occur at any level.
- In the tubes that drain the testicles in the epididymis in the vas deferens near ejaculatory duct.
- Blockage in the different duct that carry the sperm from the testis to the urethra can cause problems for sperm.
- Both the vas defence and the epididymis help transport sperm from the testis into the penis.
14.TUMOURS:
*Fertility is often impaired after chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
- A male may still be fertile while getting radiation treatments.
- But the sperm may be damaged by expossive to the radiation.
15.ANTIBODIES THAT ATTACKS SPERM:
*Infertility from anti sperm antibodies is likely only when they bind into relevant sperm antigen.
- Involved in a specific fertility function.
- Anti sperm antibodies are proteins that attacks sperm.
16.EJACULATION ISSUES:
*Ejaculation issues can be caused by surgery, medication.
- Ejaculation occurs when semen enters the bladder during orgasm instead of emerging out the tip of the penis.
- Even the man with good semen will be infertile if there in an inability to deliver.
17.SMALL VOLUME OF FLUIDS EJACULATED:
*Low volume of semen could be a sign of low testosterone.
18.DIFFICULTY MAINTAINING ERECTION/ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION:
*An erection can occur usually medical but mostly cause as psychological.
- Trouble getting an erection.
- It is persistent difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection sufficient to have sex.
19.OBISITY:
*Obesity can reduced the quality of men's sperm.
- Obesity affects infertility by changing the men sex hormones.
- Increase weight in men has been associated with a lower testosterone level.
- Poor sperm quality quantity reduced fertility.
20.PAINFUL EJACULATION:
*It also known as Dysorgasmia / Orgasmaldia /Orgasm.
- Men may notice a burning sensation when ejaculating.
- Is not an uncommon condition (infection,inflammation,blockages).
21.BLOOD IN THE SEMEN:
*Is also known as Hematospermia.
- It usually only temporary but its serious can be linked to cancer of the testicles.
- And other reproductive disease prostate biopsy is the most common cause of blood in the semen.
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