Lagos – Men that take up to 60 per cent alcohol in 48 hours may be at risk
of developing abnormal quality of sperm-teratozospermia.
Stating this was Dr. Sharon Osaide, a fertility
physician and gynecologist with Rose Du Rouge International Initiative while
delivering a lecture recently on health, at the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) Orientation Camp, Ipaja-Lagos.
Not only did Osaide warn against too much
consumption of alcohol, she also warned against unhealthy lifestyle as well as
conditions such as smoking and obesity, which she linked to infertility in men
and women.
“Men that take up to 60 per cent alcohol in 48
hours would develop teratozospermia otherwise described as abnormal sperm cell.
Though they have normal sperm counts, but they would have abnormal quality of
sperm.
“Obesity in male and female could lead to
infertility, when a woman is obese, they would not ovulate regularly. When a
man is obese, he will produce the estrogen hormone rather than the testosterone
hormone and the estrogen
hormone is the female hormone and after some time the estrogen will inhibit
their production and a lot of them would not produce sperm cell anymore.
“Smoking is another cause of infertility,
unfortunately a lot of women smoke and women that smoke has 70 per cent more
chance of going into early menopause than women that does not smoke, especially
women that smoked at early puberty,” she stated.
Osaide continued that the longer a woman smoke
the earlier she goes into menopause.
“It is unfortunate today that some women go into
menopause at age 42, while our mothers were still menstruating at the age of
52. This is the more reason why we need to make our society better,” Osaide added.
