Patient's question:
How does female infertility occur? I met my husband when I was in college, and we never took any contraceptive measures while dating. But I have never been pregnant. Now I'm preparing to get married, and my family elders keep urging me, which is really annoying.Doctor's answer:
Infertility refers to couples with normal sexual life who have not adopted contraceptive measures and have not become pregnant early. Its incidence rate shows a significant upward trend. A survey conducted by the World Health Organization in 33 centers in 25 countries in the mid-to-late 1980s found that about 5% to 8% of couples in developed countries are affected by infertility, while in some regions of developing countries, the prevalence rate of infertility can be as high as 30%, and in China, it is about 6% to 15%. The number of infertile patients worldwide is approximately 80 million to 110 million. The declining trend in the incidence rate of infertility may be related to late marriage, late childbirth, induced abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases. If a couple of childbearing age has normal sexual life, lives together, does not use contraception, and has never become pregnant in 2 years, it is called infertility.