Men that take up to 60 per cent
alcohol in 48 hours may be at risk of
developing abnormal quality of
sperm-teratozospermia.
- Stating this was Dr. Sharon Osaide, a
fertility physician and gynecologist with
Rose Du Rouge International Initiative while
delivering a lecture recently on health, at
the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
Orientation Camp, Ipaja-Lagos.
Not only did Osaide warn against too much
consumption of alcohol, she also warned
against unhealthy lifestyle as well as
conditions such as smoking and obesity,
which she linked to infertility in men and
women.
“Men that take up to 60 per cent alcohol in
48 hours would develop teratozospermia
otherwise described as abnormal sperm
cell. Though they have normal sperm
counts, but they would have abnormal
quality of sperm.
“Obesity in male and female could lead to
infertility, when a woman is obese, they
would not ovulate regularly. When a man is
obese, he will produce the estrogen
hormone rather than the testosterone
hormone and the estrogen hormone is the
female hormone and after some time the
estrogen will inhibit their production and a
lot of them would not produce sperm cell
anymore.
“Smoking is another cause of infertility,
unfortunately a lot of women smoke and
women that smoke has 70 per cent more
chance of going into early menopause than
women that does not smoke, especially
women that smoked at early puberty,†she
stated.
Osaide continued that the longer a woman
smoke the earlier she goes into
menopause.
“It is unfortunate today that some women
go into menopause at age 42, while our
mothers were still menstruating at the age
of 52. This is the more reason why we
need to make our society better,†Osaide
added.
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