Will Ureaplasma Urealyticum Affect the Rate of Pregnancy?
Normally, male mycoplasma infection can manifest as urgent urination, frequent urination, and painful urination, especially when urine is concentrated, the symptoms will be aggravated. In addition, male mycoplasma infection may also include the following symptoms, prostatitis, epididymitis, etc., poor sperm quality, significantly increased number of dead sperm, asthenospermia, reduced motility, morphological abnormalities, and some patients even have sexual dysfunction or infertility.
Ureaplasma urealyticum is one of the mycoplasma, it can directly adsorb on the head of the sperm, destroy sperm motility and movements, affect the normal combination of sperm and egg, and make it difficult for sperm to fertilize the eggs normally.
In addition, Ureaplasma urealyticum has a common antigen with the sperm membrane, which may lead to immune infertility once infected. According to statistics, the highest detection rate of male urethral mycoplasma infection is 36.8%. Therefore, it is necessary to check and treat at the same time in order to avoid re-infection. Therefore, when it is difficult for infertility patients to identify the cause, ureaplasma urealyticum should be examined in order to confirm the diagnosis and take effective measures as soon as possible.
Ureaplasma urealyticum is spread mainly through sex, mostly in young people who have an active sexual life, especially after unhygienic sexual intercourse. When genitourinary inflammation occurs and mucosal surface is damaged, Ureaplasma urealyticum is easy to invade from the damaged part and cause genitourinary infection. When people are infected with ureaplasma urealyticum, most of the patients have no obvious symptoms, so it is difficult to be detected by patients and easy to cause missed diagnosis by doctors.
When it is spread to women, Ureaplasma urealyticum can invade the urethra, cervix and vestibular gland, causing urethritis, cervicitis, and vestibular adenitis. When infected upwards, it can cause endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, especially salpingitis. At the same time, prostatitis, non-gonococcal urethritis, and non-gonococcal urethritis can also occur. In fact, about 80% of urethral and genital infections carry Ureaplasma urealyticum. Those with severe infections can infect the fetus through the placenta, leading to premature delivery, stillbirth, or infection of newborns during childbirth, causing respiratory tract infections.
Both husband and wife should be tested for ureaplasma urealyticum before they prepare for pregnancy. If there is ureaplasma urealyticum infection, they should be treated first. The common treatment of mycoplasma is to select sensitive antibiotics based on drug sensitivity tests.
However, in recent years, the resistance, allergy, and damage to the liver and kidney of antibiotics can not be neglected. Many male patients will choose natural medicine such as Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill to treat, which can effectively eliminate the mycoplasma pathogens, repair the damaged genitourinary mucosa, improve sperm vitality and fertility. In addition, the couples should also pay attention to personal hygiene and health, and avoid unhygienic sexual life, which is of great significance for the prevention of ureaplasma urealyticum infection.
The criteria for cure of ureaplasma urealyticum includes the following,
1. The clinical symptoms have disappeared for more than a week, and the white blood cells in the urethral secretions or secretions were less than 4/100 times under the microscope.
2. Urine clarification and sediment tests were negative.
3. Mycoplasma examination of urethral or cervical specimens was negative.
Once you find symptoms of ureaplasma urealyticum, it is suggested to avoid sexual intercourse so as not to your partner, and both of you need to have pre-pregnancy check-ups in advance during pregnancy preparation, so that you can have healthy babies.
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