10 Disease That Makes Sperm Count Descending

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Health - Normally, there are hundreds of millions of sperms in a teaspoon of semen ejaculated during orgasm man. However, certain diseases can make sperm count is reduced. In medical science known as oligospermia.

Semen of sperm is a fluid that is secreted by the gonads of male. It contains sperm cells, fructose and other enzymes that help the sperm to survive and facilitate fertilization in order that succeed. Cements passes through the ejaculatory ducts and mixes with fluid from the seminal vesicles, prostate and Cowper's glands. The seminal vesicles produce a a viscous fluid and fructose. It formed about 65 till 70 percent of the composition of semen.

The white color of semen coming from the prostate gland secretions containing enzymes, citric acid, lipids, and acid phosphatase. It formed about 25 until 30 percent of the composition of semen. Each ejaculate was issued about one teaspoon of semen, which contains 200 till 500 million male cells (spermatozoa). It formed about 2-5 percent of the cement composition.

Sperm production is a complex process and requires normal function of the testicles, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland, an organ in the brain producing hormones that trigger the production of sperm. After the sperm produced in the testes, small tubes transporting up and mixed with semen ejaculated from the penis. The problem with this system can affect sperm production. Also, there's the problem of abnormal sperm shape (morphology) or movement (motility).

Some diseases can impair sperm production, as reported by the Mayo Clinic:

1. Infection
Some infections can interfere with sperm production and sperm health, or can cause scar tissue that blocks the passage of sperm. Examples are sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, prostate inflammation, testicular inflammation due to mumps, and other infections of the urinary tract or reproductive organs.

2. Retrograde Ejaculation
Retrograde ejaculation take place while semen enters the bladder during orgasm, not emerge from the tip of the penis. Various medical conditions can cause retrograde ejaculation. such as diabetes, spinal cord injury, surgery, bladder, prostate or urethra.

Certain medications can also cause retrograde ejaculation, such as blood pressure drugs known as alpha blockers. Some men with spinal cord injury or certain disease can not be ejaculation semen at all, although they can still produce sperm.

3. Antibodies that attack sperm
Anti-sperm antibodies are cells of the immune system mistakenly identifies sperm as dangerous invaders and try to destroy it. This is especially common in men who had undergone a vasectomy.

4. Tumors
Cancer and nonmalignant tumors can affect the reproductive organs of men directly, or may affect the glands that release hormones associated with reproduction, such as the pituitary gland.

5. Testes don't descend
During fetal development, one or both testes sometimes fail to descend from the abdomen into the sac that usually contains the testicles (scroctum).

6. Hormonal Imbalance
The hypothalamus, pituitary and testes produce a hormone that is needed to make sperm. These hormonal changes, as well as from another systems such as the thyroid and adrenal glands, can interfere with sperm production.

7. Defective sperm duct
The tube that carries sperm can be damaged by disease or injury. Some men are born with a blockage in the testicle that stores sperm (epydidymis) or blockage of one of the tubes that carry sperm from the testicles (vas deferens). Men with cystic fibrosis and some another inherited conditions can be born without a vas deferens at all.

8. Defective chromosome
Hereditary disorder such as Klinefelter's syndrome, in which males are born with two X chromosomes an done Y chromosome instead of one X and one Y, causing abnormal development of male reproductive organs. Other genetic syndromes associated with infertility, including cystic fibrosis, Kallmann syndrome, Young's syndrome, and Kartagener syndrome.

9. Celiac Disease
Indigestion caused by sensitivity to gluten, celiac disease, can cause male infertility. Fertility may improve after adopting a gluten-free diet.

10. Varicocele
A varicocele is a swealling of the blood vessels that flow to the testicle.

That some of the disease that can interfere with the quality of your sperm. And for now on, keep your lifestyle with a healthy so that you're farthest from the disease and does not make your sperm decreases.