For infertility patients, there is no lack of couples with advanced ages or younger ones. Many of them have no idea about their health condition, or without sufficient understanding of their fertility, which make them confused and shamed. Additionally, influenced by the old concepts, many sufferers condemn it to women's fault, however, who have ignored the male issues, even didn't know what examinations need to take for male infertility.
What Examinations Should Take for Male Infertility
As for the infertility problem, except the exclusion of obvious controllable factors like the frequency of sexual lives, the most primary examination should be applied for male, because the male's examinations are easy and less painful. So, it's more convenient to check male's body first.
1. Seminal Routine Examination
If male want to examine their infertile issues, it's essential to check the development of inside and outside genitals to make sure its growth and sexual function are normal. Then it's time to examine semen, and seminal routine examination is an important clinical index to check male fertile capability. For male people, it's better to practice abstinence for 3-5 days, then get semen samples through masturbation, and make sure your semen is complete. What's more, due to the factor that sperm motility will affect the result, so, even after the primary examination, it's also need to take 1-2 times reexaminations.
2. Seminal Leukocyte Examination
The chemical composition analysis of male semen conduces to learn the functions of male epididymis, prostate, seminal vesicles. It can also help to check out some male diseases like low semen volumes, azoospermia, oligospermia, unknown sperm vitality decline, as well as birth defect or disease of affiliated sexual glands.
3. Male Endocrine Examination
Reproductive endocrine dysfunction could also influence the male sexual functions or male reproductive capacity. Male endocrine examinations mainly includes sex hormone T, FSH, LH, PRL, E2 test, as well as various provocation tests, such as HCG stimulation test and so on.
4. Related Microbial Test
Microbial test is specific to check the pathogenic microorganism in male reproductive system, in order to make clear whether male infertility is relating to those pathogenic microorganism or infections, while the common pathogenic microorganism including bacterial, virus, chlamydia, mycoplasma, gonococcus, spirochete etc..
5. Prostatic Fluid Examination
Male prostatitis can also cause infertility, and prostatic fluid is the diagnostic basis of male prostatitis.
In concludes, if couples cannot have children, male can be one of the factors, so, we suggests male group to take the above examinations successively to check the reason.
