Patient's question:
What are the symptoms of immunological infertility? I've been fine otherwise, but every time I have sex with my boyfriend, I feel uncomfortable down there. Not only is the color of my discharge abnormal, but the smell is also very unpleasant. This has been troubling me for a long time.Doctor's answer:
Hello, under normal sexual life conditions, if the body produces spontaneous autoimmune responses to any stage of the perinatal process, leading to delayed delivery for more than two years, it is referred to as immunological infertility. Immunological infertility can be broadly or narrowly defined. Broadly speaking, immunological infertility refers to autoimmune responses to any tissue antigen of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary (testicular) axis, which can manifest in women as the absence of menopause or amenorrhea, and in men as an increase or decrease in sperm count or motility. The immunological infertility typically referred to is the narrow definition, where infertile couples, in addition to having anti-sperm autoimmune or anti-zona pellucida autoimmune responses, are otherwise normal in other aspects.