- Amazing 6 Advantages of Sperm Freezing
Amazing 6 Advantages of Sperm Freezing
Do you these Amazing 6 advantages of Sperm freezing?
If you have this knowledge, you can freeze your sperms and such banked sperms can be used for remote fertility treatments among other benefits.
Men freeze their sperm for future use or donate it for someone else’s treatment.
Donated sperms are usually quarantined for 3 to 6 months and screened for infection before they can be used.There is no difference between frozen sperm and fresh sperm in terms of success rate in IVF and there is no risk involved.
Since not all sperm survive the freezing and defrosting process, there is no need to defrost all your sperm and use it at once. Theoretically, sperm can be frozen for life.
There is an example of sperm frozen with liquid Nitrogen that still remains intact after 20 years.
Can You Freeze Your Sperm?
You can consider freezing your sperm if:
1. You are away from your wife; For example, your wife lives in Nigeria and you are abroad.. Your schedule doesn’t allow you to travel down most of the time and you want to have a family her
2.You both live abroad — it saves flight tickets! You travel down once to preserve your sperm and your wife completes the remaining trips.
The preserved sperm can always be used for insemination in your absence.
3. You are likely to have difficulty producing sperm at the time of fertility treatment.
4. You are at risk of injury or death like soldiers in the war zone.
5 You have Testicular, Prostate cancer or Non-Hodgkin’s disease and you require Radiotherapy or Chemotherapy. You have just been diagnosed with this condition after taking a new wife and you want to plan for your family.
6. you have low sperm count or rapidly deteriorating sperm. The presence of few sperm is enough indication for sperm freezing. A single sperm can be injected into the egg to fertilize it, during the process of ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
A study cited by Healthline among oncology staff physicians and fellows showed that 48 percent of them reported never discussing the option of sperm freezing or mentioning it to fewer than one-quarter of eligible individuals.
Despite the fact that sperm freezing is widely seen as a choice today, it is underutilized.
It is better if you request it:
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- For Older men in their late 40s because age certainly plays a role in male fertility.
“For men, it’s a slower decline,” says Scott Lundy, M.D., a male infertility and sexual medicine staff urologist at Cleveland Clinic. “As we age, the testicles, like any other organ, don’t function as well as they used to.”
- Ageing can affect the quality of your sperm, like motility (movement) morphology (shape and appearance) and count, making it hard for sperm to fertilize an egg.
Generally, fertility starts to decline in men when they’re in their late 40s, with up to a 23 out of 100 annual decline in fertility beginning at age 39.
One study concluded that conceiving during a 12-month period was 30 out of 100 less likely for men who were over the age of 40 compared to men who were less than 30 years old.
In a study of intrauterine or artificial insemination, scientists discovered that after six cycles, men below 35 years had a fertility rate of 52%, while men above 35 had a fertility rate of 25%.
Where Can You Freeze Your Sperm?
Sperm are frozen at a Sperm Bank in a Fertility Clinic because sperm has to be collected within 1 to 2 hrs after ejaculation. This can also be done at home but it must get to the clinic within the laid down time.
How Much Does It Cost To Freeze Your Sperm?
You need to speak with a Fertility Specialist about the cost, but it is not expensive. It varies from one Clinic to another.
What Steps Are Involved in The Sperm Freezing Process?
- Your blood will be screened for HIV, Hepatitis B Surface antigens, Hepatitis C virus and other Sexually Transmitted infections. Blood group and Genotype will also be determined if these have not been done before now. You will also need to abstain from sex for 3 to 5 days, after which you will be admitted into a room where you produce sperm in a sterile bottle.
- You will need to sign a consent form.
- Seminal fluid analysis will be done, to determine the sperm count, and abnormalities in shape, appearance, movement and volume.
- Your sperm will be frozen immediately after ejaculation to make sure it is fresh.
- The quantities of semen collected will depend on the quality of your sperm.
- The samples are divided and frozen by the Laboratory Scientist.
- In case you are unable to produce semen we can extract it from your epididymis or testes.
Now that you know the advantages of sperm freezing. Why not talk to a fertility specialist today about your options?
You can book an appointment with Dr G. L. Yahaya, ourfertility specialist at Continental Fertility Clinic.