Monday, March 30, 2009

POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE AND ECLAMPSIA

REDUCING POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE AND ECLAMPSIA

Despite the presence of a skilled attendant and proper management, about 3-4 % of women will still experience postpartum blood loss more than 1000 ml during the third stage of labor. Over all, every year on average, 130 000 women bleed to death while giving birth. In about 90 % of cases the cause is uterine atony, or failure of the uterus to contract properly after childbirth.
If bleeding is profuse, treatment with hormone oxytocin 0, 5 ml [5 units] in an I.V. [Intra Venous] infusion. If oxytocin is not available, another option of treatment is prostaglandin misoprostol [generic, Cytotec]. Oral: 100 and 200 microgram tablets, 3-4 times daily.

Preventing postpartum hemorrhage [The writer experiences]:
Prevent of uterine atony [weaken contraction of uterus].The writer experiences was giving neuromuscular and tropic vitamins such as tablet neurodex which contains vitamins B1 100 mg, B6 200 mg and B12 250 microgram, once daily for the last trimester of pregnancy. The effect of these vitamins are: good strength of smooth muscle of uterus, good excitability of autonomic nervous system supplied the uterus; and the uterus is sensitive to oxytocin in parturition and strong contraction of uterus on the second and on the third stage of labor; eventually prevent hemorrhage.
The other drugs prevent the bleeding on postpartum hemorrhage are: vitamin C 500 mg per oral daily, vitamin K 5 mg per oral daily and calcium lactate 500 mg per oral daily, respectively once daily for the last month of pregnancy. The purpose of giving these drugs are better clotting of blood on post partum period and finally prevent bleeding or hemorrhage.

PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ECLAMPSIA.

Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy affecting several body systems, including the brain, liver and kidney. The symptoms and signs are characterized by hypertension, protein in urine and generalize edema. The manifestations develop from the 24th week of pregnancy through the second week of delivery. Severe , persistent, generalized headache, vertigo, malaise and nervous irritability are prominent symptoms which are due in part to cerebral edema. Epigastrium pain, nausea, and liver tenderness are the result of congestion, thrombosis of the periportal system. Ninety-five % of cases occur after the 32nd week, and 75 % of these patients are primigravidas.
About one in 200 patients with the pre-eclampsia develops eclampsia, which is marked by convulsions or coma and be fatal without treatment. Together, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia affect about 10 % of all pregnancies and account for about 12 % of all maternal deaths.

Treatment of pre-eclampsia:
1. Hospital care. Give sedatives and anticonvulsants e.g. Phenobarbital 60 mg orally 3 times daily. Magnesium sulfate [an excellent anticonvulsant] may be given I.V., 20 ml of 10 % aqueous solution injected slowly, and repeated hourly to prevent or control seizures.
2. Diuretics: Chlorothiazide [Diuril], 250-500 mg orally daily or Hidro-Diuril 25-50 mg per oral daily, or Furosemide [Lasix] 40 mg per oral twice daily may be given to promote diuresis and reduce blood pressure.
3. Antihypertensive drugs: Captopril 25 mg tablet per oral 3 times daily or Amlodipine [Norvasc] 5 mg – 10 mg tablet once daily.


Treatment of eclampsia:
General care. Hospitalize the patient in a single, darken, quiet room, at absolute bed rest with side rail for protection during convulsions, and provide special nurses the clock. Allow no visitors. Do not disturb the patient for unnecessary procedures.
Diet and fluids: If the patient is convulsing, give nothing by mouth. Measure and record fluid intake and output for each 24-hours period.
Anticonvulsant Magnesium sulfate, 10 ml of a 25 % solution I.V. when the patient enters the hospital and then one injection after each convulsion. It may combine with Sodium Phenobarbital 250-500 mg I. M. every 6-8 hours.
Delivery: Because severe hypertensive disease, renal disease, and toxemia of pregnancy are usually aggravated by continuing pregnancy, the most direct method of treatment of any of these disorders is termination of pregnancy. Control eclampsia before attempting induction of labor or delivery. Induce labor , preferably by amniotomy alone, when the patient’s condition permits. Use oxytocin to stimulate labor if necessary.
Vaginal delivery is preferred. If the patient is not at term, is not inducible, if she is bleeding, or if there is a question of disproportion, cesarean section may be necessary.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL AND NEONATAL DEATHS

PRINCIPAL INTERVENTIONS FOR MATERNAL AND NEONATAL DEATHS.



Table 1 :Causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and principal interventions required.

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Causes of maternal and neonatal % Proven interventions
deaths
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Bleeding after delivery [postpartum....25..Treat anemia in pregnancy.
hemorrhage]...............................................Skilled attendant at birth:
...................................................................prevent/treat bleeding with
...................................................................correct drugs,
...................................................................replace fluid loss by
.................................................................. intravenous drip/transfusion
...................................................................if needed
Infection after delivery.......................15.. Skilled attendant at birth:
..................................................................clean practice. Antibiotics if
..................................................................infection arises
Unsafe abortion............................13.
.................................................................Skilled attendant: give
.................................................................antibiotics, empty uterus,
.................................................................replace fluid if needed,
.................................................................counsel, and provide family
.................................................................planning. Access to safe
.................................................................abortion where not against the
.................................................................law.
High blood pressure..........................12....Detect pregnancy;refer to
................................................................doctor or hospital Treat[hypertension] during pregnancy:........eclampsia with appropriate
most dangerous when severe
[eclampsia] ..........................................anticonvulsive [magnesium
................................................................sulfate].Refer unconscious
...............................................................woman for expert urgent
...............................................................assistence
Obstructed labor .........................8
..............................................................Detection in time and referral for
..............................................................operative delivery.
Other direct obstetric causes .........8
.............................................................Refer ectopic pregnancy for
.............................................................operation.
Indirect causes .........................19 .....................................................
.............................................................Disease-specific interventions
.............................................................[malaria, HIV, etc]

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Causes of neonatal deaths........... %.. .Proven intervention ....................
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Infections [septic meningitis],.33....Maternal tetanus toxoid
..........................................................immunization
pneumonia, neonatal ........................syphilis screening and treatment,
tetanus, congenital syphilis]......... ....clean delivery,warmth, support for
.........................................................early and exclusive breastfeeding,
.................................................... ....early recognition management of
.................................................... ....infections.
Birth asphyxia and ........... 28.. ..Skilled attendant at birth:
trauma.............................................effective management of maternal
........................................................obstetric complications.
Preterm birth and/ or...........24.. ..Anti malarial for women at
.......................................................risk during
low birth weight ............................pregnancy.Attention to warmth,
.....................................................breastfeeding counseling and support,
.....................................................infection control and early detection
.....................................................and
....................................................management of complication. Sexually
....................................................transmitted disease treatment. ....................................................Smoking cessation.

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MAKING PREGNANCY SAFER.


MAKING PREGNANCY SAFER.
Picture: Nine months pregnant.
Motheeer! How are you today?
Please, make my pregnancy safer!!!

THE SITUATION

What are the situations of making pregnancy safer? There are 3 situations concern about the topic:
Causes of maternal and neonatal deaths, every year about 210 million women become pregnant. An estimated 30 million, or about 15 of these women develop complications, which are fatal in 515 000, or 1, 7 % of cases.
The incidence of preterm [premature] labor, occurs in 5 to 15 % of all pregnancies; rates have remained unchanged for decades despite efforts to intervene.The mortality rates by gestational less than 26 weeks is 44 %, and 28-29 weeks is 9 %.
The incidence of spontaneous abortion, occurs in 15 to 20 % of clinically diagnosed pregnancies. Sub-clinical spontaneous abortion [early losses not diagnosed for lack of symptoms] rate is about 10 %. The mortality rate is 100 %.

THE PROBLEM

The problems are:
Can we help, treat and prevent or decrease the maternal and neonatal deaths? Yes we can !
Can we help, treat, decrease[lessen] the incidence of preterm labor? Yes, we can!
Can we help, treat and prevent or lessen the incidence of abortion? Yes, we can !

THE SOLUTIONS

How to solve the problems? The solutions should be tailored to the problems above mention.

PRINCIPAL INTERVENTIONS REQUIRED TO LESSEN MATERNAL AND NEONATAL DEATHS.

Of all health statistics, those for maternal mortality represent the greatest disparity between developing and developed countries: more than 99 % of maternal deaths occur in developing countries, where a woman runs an average risk of dying from a pregnancy related disorder about 250-fold greater than a woman in most developed countries.
More than 70 % of maternal deaths are caused by just 5 conditions: bleeding after delivery [25 % of deaths], infection after delivery [15 %], unsafe abortion [13%], hypertensive disorders [12 %], and obstructed labor [8 %].other direct obstetric causes [8 %], indirect causes [19 %].
Every year, on average nearly 4 million new born babies die. Neonatal infections account for 33 % of deaths in new born babies; asphyxia and trauma at birth 28 %;premature delivery and low birth weight 24 %, and congenital anomaly 10 %.The following paragraphs outline progress made in two areas of activities: identifying effective practice that could improve maternal and neonatal health, and documenting the extent and mayor determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity.

Monday, March 23, 2009

EVALUATION ON COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN

.EVALUATION ON COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN.
Picture: Heavenly life with children.
Say it with heveanly bamboo, allium leek and janome flowers.

The evaluation answers the questions:
How good is the solution?
What are the comments of the reader ?
What is the answer of the writer
?

The answers of the writer for problems solutions are:
1. Can we help or treat the infertile couples to have children? Yes, we can ! How do we help them? The details of the solution were described on the steps [5-10] about the cause and treatment of infertility in the male and female; and then give advice to the couples to do the intercourse in the period of fertile 5 days before ovulation [extruded of female egg], and to do a few intercourse on the ovulation day as the couples always feel fit, the most fertile day and the most likely result pregnancy. The others day are usually non fertile and free to do intercourse.
2. Can we help or treat the couples preference male births? Yes, we can! How do we help the couples? The details of the solution were described on the step 11 of solution, and give advice to the couples to stop intercourse 5 days before ovulation, and to do a few intercourse on the ovulation day, the most likely result of male pregnancy. The reason is that the genetic male 22Y is faster move than the genetic sperm 22X to the uterus and tuba uterine to meet and fertilize the ovum on the ovulation day and result male pregnancy. The others day are usually non fertile, and free to do intercourse.
3. Can we help or treat the couples preference female births ? Yes, we can ! The details of the solution were described on the step 12 of solution; and give advice to stop intercourse for 5 days [3 days before ovulation plus on the day of ovulation and one day after ovulation], hopeful result of female pregnancy .The others day are usually non fertile, and free to do intercourse.
4. What is the data of the treatment? The writer has experiences to help or treat the couples who wish children since 40 years ago, but no statistical data available. There is information, it is said that experience of Jules Black from Australia had the statistic said that the success of the treatment is 85%.The successful of treatment may be more than
85 % with in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic injection.It need a another research and development to obtain the new statistical success of treatments.
Source: VCD, PC. SOFTWARE .”Kesehatan Keluarga” [Family’s health]

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THE ALMIGHTY GOD KEEP AND BLESS ALL OF US.

ADVICE TO HAVE PREFERENCE MALE AND FEMALE BIRTHS

ADVICE TO HAVE PREVERENCE MALE OR FEMALE BIRTHS.



Picture: What does the couple to have, male or female birth?
Say it with flower.

ADVICE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE PREFERENCE MALE BIRTHS.

Advise to the couples with 28 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs approximately on the 14th day of menses, the fertile period is in the 10-14th day of menses cycle, the last intercourse after wife menses is on the 8th day; please stop intercourse in 9-13th day of menses, and do intercourse a few times on the 14th day or on ovulation day as the couples feel fit , hopeful result male pregnancy. The reason is that the motility of the male genetic 22Y sperms are faster move than the female genetic 22X sperms to meet and fertilize the ovum on the ovulation day.
If the menses cycle is 30 days, the fertile period is in the 12-16th day of menses, the ovulation occurs on the 16th day, the last intercourse after wife menses is on the 10th day, please stop intercourse in 11-15th day of menses; and do intercourse a few times on the 16th day or on ovulation day, hopeful result male pregnancy. The other days are infertile, to do intercourse is free.

ADVISE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE PREFERENCE FEMALE BIRTH.

Advice to the couples with 28 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs on the 14th day of menses, the fertile period is 10-14th day, the life of genetic male 22Y sperms is approximately 3 days, the life of female genetic 22X sperm is 5 days. The couple last intercourse after menses is on 10th day, please stop intercourse in 11-15th day, hopeful result female pregnancy. The reason is that the life of genetic male 22Y is 3 days, while stop intercourse in 11-15th day, the 22Y male sperms die on 13th day of menses, but the female genetic 22X sperms still live for next 2 days on 14-15th day, wait and fertilize the ovum on the 14th day of ovulation, hopeful result female pregnancy.

Advise to the couples with 30 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs on the 16th day of menses. The last intercourse after menses is on 12th day, please stop intercourse in 13-17th day, hopeful result female pregnancy. The reason is that the life of genetic 22Y male sperm is 3 days will die on the 15th day , but the genetic female 22X sperms are still live for the next 2 days in 16-17th day, wait and fertilize the ovum on the 16th day of ovulation, hopeful result female pregnancy. The other days are infertile, it is free to do intercourse.

.EVALUATION.

ADVICE FOR COUPLES: CHILDREN BIRTHS



ADVICE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE CHILDREN BIRTHS.
Picture: Good feeling to have children. Say it with flower!

Ovulation occurs approximately 14 days before the onset of the next menstrual period regardless of the length of time between period; when the cycle is regular, the time of ovulation and the fertile period can be anticipated.
The ovum lives for approximately 72 hours after it is extruded from the follicle and the sperms survive in female genital tract no more 120 hours [5 days].Consequently, the fertile period during in 28 day cycle [period of menses]is actually 120 hours [5 days] and the most fertile period is 24 hours [one day] at the day of ovulation .
The couple intercourse on the day of ovulation is most likely to result in pregnancy.
What does it mean?
The couple intercourse in the 5 days fertile period or in 10-14th day of menses may result fertilization, and in 14th day of menses is the most fertile period result of fertilization or pregnancy. The writer advice the couples to do a few intercourses on the day of ovulation if the couple fit to do , the more ejaculated hundreds million sperms on ovulation day will result of pregnancy.
If the menses cycle is 30 days, the fertile period is in the 12-16th days, and the most fertile period is on the 16th day, please do a few intercourse as you always fit to do, hopeful result pregnancy.

If oligosperm is present, the artificial insemination usually results in pregnancy, assuming female reproductive system is normal.
If medication treatment to the couples have not responded, the next step is to consult the patient to the Gynecologist for assisted reproductive technologies [ART] treatment. What are the ART ? The ART are techniques involving the direct retrieval of eggs from the ovary. Most of these procedures require ovarian stimulation with timed retrieval of oocytes [ova].
What is in vitro fertilization [IVF] ? the IVF is extraction of oocytes or ova [through the vaginal wall under ultrasound guidance], fertilization in vitro in the laboratory, and trans-cervical transfer of the embryo into the uterus 2 days later. Usually requires 100 000 to 200 000 sperm per egg.
What are the indication of the IVF ? Previously damaged tubes, immunologic infertility [anti-sperm antibodies], extreme male factor infertility and unexplained infertility.
What is intracytoplasmic sperm injection [ICSI]?
Retrieval of oocytes followed by the injection of a single spermatozoon into the egg with a micropipette: embryos are then transferred to the uterus 2 days later.
What is indication for ICSI ? Oligospermia, sperm motility disorders.
The information of couples preference male or female, it seems not yet available in ART, IVF and ICSI.

Source: F. John Bourgeois et al. Obstetrics and Gynecology Recall, Virginia, 2008, p 509.
If treatment is not successful within 3 years, the physician must consider whether he should recommend adoption.

11. ADVISE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE PREFERENCE MALE BIRTHS.

TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE MALE.

TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE MALE.

Androgenic preparations are used when normal spermatogenesis is to be achieved. Androgen preparation for replacement therapy:
Methyltestosteron per oral 25-50 mg daily; sublingual ] 5-10 mg /day.
Fluoxymesterone per oral 10 mg / day or;
Testosterone, transdermal 2.5-10 mg/ day; or
Testosterone topical gel [1 %] 5-10 g gel / day; or
Testosteron intramuscular [IM] 30-60 mg daily for the husband, on the 5th day-11th day of the menses of his wife. Large dose of testosterone depress spermatogenesis, but if stop or intermittent low dose may be of value of some patients or relief the oligosperm Harvey and Jackson have attributed the beneficial effect to more efficient erection and ejaculation and to improvement in the quality of the semen. Androgen therapy is contraindicated in patients with carcinoma of the prostate .
Source: Cecil & Loeb. A Textbook of Medicine, W.B. Saunders Company, USA, 1959, p 753.
Human chorionic gonadotropin [hCG] is injected IM at a dose of 75-150 units three times per week.
Treatment hypothyroidism with levothyroxine 50-100 microgram per day and liothyronine 10 microgram per day.
Sodium bicarbonate 500 mg per oral one gram twice daily has the effect to induce alkaline of the semen, which is favorable for spermatozoa media to move or propulsion.

Vitamin support spermatogenesis and strength of sperm motility:
Vitamin A 20 000 IU per oral daily and vitamin E 100 IU per oral daily , the purpose of these two vitamns are to stimulate spermatogenesis in the testes.
Neurotropic and neuronmyalgic vitamins such as tablet neurobion or neurodex, consist of vitamin B1 100 mg, B6 200 mg and B12 250 microgram. The purpose of these vitamins are to strengthen motility of sperms in the semen of the husband and in the secretion of genital tract of his wife, and then to facilitate fertilization.
All of these vitamins can strengthen the health of the husband too.

10.ADVICE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE CHILDREN

TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE


TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.
Picture: Do the best of treatment and let God do the rest.
Say it with flower.

The treatment of infertility should be tailored to the problems unique to each couple .treatment in all cases depend upon correction of the underlying disorder or disorders suspected of causing infertile and wishing children.
Nutritional :protein, energy, vitamin and mineral deficiencies must be corrected
Good nutrition for stability of body weight, requires that energy and protein intake, vitamins and minerals are balanced over time. The average energy intake is about 2800 kcal/ day for men and about 1800 kcal/ day for women, the protein need is about one gram/ kg body weight per day, though these estimates vary with age, body size and activity level.
Additional vitamins which support better fertility is better gives to the women as such as:
1.Vitamin A 20 000 IU per oral [PO] daily. Since the lack of vit A interferes with the process of ovulation, an adequate dietary supply of this vitamin necessary for normal fertility.
2.Vit E-alpha tocopherol 100 IU , per oral once daily. If vit E deficiency in female, ovarian function is normal but uterine physiology is disturbed. There is partial failure of implantation, and the fertilized ova implanted grow and develop only to a certain stage , at which time the embryo show generalized hemorrhage, die, and is aborted or resolved. Administration of vit E during the first half of gestation permits normal embryo development and parturition.
3.Vit C 500 mg , per oral once daily. Vit C is concerned fundamentally with the formation of intercellular substances, including the collagen of fibrous tissue structures, the matrices of bone, cartilage, and dentin, and all non epithelial cement substance, including of vascular endothelium. Administration of vit C, within a few hours rapid repair of tissues in wounds and bone fractures, and is an important factor in determining resistance to infection.
Source: Philip B. Hawk, Ph.D., Sc. D. [Hon].Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954, p 1104-1296.

Treatment of endocrine disorders.
1. Estrogenic hormone: Estradiol 1 mg once daily for the 6th-11h day of the woman menses, this hormone will stimulate the ovulation on the 14th of menses, and hope the next menses on the 28th day of menses.
2. Clomiphene citrate is administered in dose of 100 mg/ day for 5 days. Clomiphene is used in the treatment of disorder of ovulation in patient who wish children. Usually, a single ovulation is induced by a single course of therapy, and the patient must be treated repeatedly until pregnancy is achieved. The compound is no of value in patients with pituitary failure.
3. The gonadotropins are produced by a single type of pituitary cell..These hormones serve complementary functions in the reproductive process. The follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] and luteinizing hormone [LH] from anterior pituitary gland control the function of ovary. The FSH is responsible for the early maturation of the ovarian follicles; that FSH and LH together are responsible for their final maturation. The doses begin with 75 IU FSH plus 75 IU LH [one ampule] intramuscular daily for 9-12 days. If pregnancy still does not result, increase the dose to 2 ampules daily for 9-12 days.
4. Human menopausal gonadotropins [hMG] is known as menotropins consist of FSH 75 IU and LH 75 IU for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection. Its mechanism of action is to induce maturation of follicles and expulsion of ova.
5. Treatment of hypothyroidism with combination of levothyroxin[TY] and liothyronine [T3].Levothyroxine 25 microgram per oral daily for 2 weeks, increasing the daily dose by 25 microgram for the next 2 weeks. Liothyronine 5 microgram daily for 2 weeks such as levothyroxine.

Surgical measures correction of congenital, tumors, for the lower genital tract. Surgical
excision of ovarian tumors restore fertility. Surgical relief of tuba uterine obstruction due to salpingitis will reestablish fertility.

Sodium bicarbonate 500 mg two times one gram per oral daily will induce the secretion of cervix, uterus and tuba uterine become base or alkaline which are favorable media for sperma to “swim” which facilitate fertilization.

Base-forming foods.Diet with a large amount of vegetables and fruits on burning outside or inside the body leave an ash or residue in which the basic elements [sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium] predominate; where as cereals, meat, and fish foods leave an ash in which the acid forming elements [chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur] predomite.Such foods are spoken of a base forming and acid forming foods, respectively, and will influence the acid-base balance of the body, particularly [the cervix, uterus, and tuba uterine] can produce the alkaline secretion , which favorable for sperms life and motility, and then facilitate fertilization.
Source: Pilip B.Hawk et al.Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1954, p1097 and Appendix IV, p 1357-1364.

9. TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE MALE

TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE

TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.



The treatment of infertility should be tailored to the problems unique to each couple .treatment in all cases depend upon correction of the underlying disorder or disorders suspected of causing infertile and wishing children.
Nutritional :protein, energy, vitamin and mineral deficiencies must be corrected
Good nutrition for stability of body weight, requires that energy and protein intake, vitamins and minerals are balanced over time. The average energy intake is about 2800 kcal/ day for men and about 1800 kcal/ day for women, the protein need is about one gram/ kg body weight per day, though these estimates vary with age, body size and activity level.
Additional vitamins which support better fertility is better gives to the women as such as:
1.Vitamin A 20 000 IU per oral [PO] daily. Since the lack of vit A interferes with the process of ovulation, an adequate dietary supply of this vitamin necessary for normal fertility.
2.Vit E-alpha tocopherol 100 IU , per oral once daily. If vit E deficiency in female, ovarian function is normal but uterine physiology is disturbed. There is partial failure of implantation, and the fertilized ova implanted grow and develop only to a certain stage , at which time the embryo show generalized hemorrhage, die, and is aborted or resolved. Administration of vit E during the first half of gestation permits normal embryo development and parturition.
3.Vit C 500 mg , per oral once daily. Vit C is concerned fundamentally with the formation of intercellular substances, including the collagen of fibrous tissue structures, the matrices of bone, cartilage, and dentin, and all non epithelial cement substance, including of vascular endothelium. Administration of vit C, within a few hours rapid repair of tissues in wounds and bone fractures, and is an important factor in determining resistance to infection.
Source: Philip B. Hawk, Ph.D., Sc. D. [Hon].Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954, p 1104-1296.

Treatment of endocrine disorders.
1. Estrogenic hormone: Estradiol 1 mg once daily for the 6th-11h day of the woman menses, this hormone will stimulate the ovulation on the 14th of menses, and hope the next menses on the 28th day of menses.
2. Clomiphene citrate is administered in dose of 100 mg/ day for 5 days. Clomiphene is used in the treatment of disorder of ovulation in patient who wish children. Usually, a single ovulation is induced by a single course of therapy, and the patient must be treated repeatedly until pregnancy is achieved. The compound is no of value in patients with pituitary failure.
3. The gonadotropins are produced by a single type of pituitary cell..These hormones serve complementary functions in the reproductive process. The follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] and luteinizing hormone [LH] from anterior pituitary gland control the function of ovary. The FSH is responsible for the early maturation of the ovarian follicles; that FSH and LH together are responsible for their final maturation. The doses begin with 75 IU FSH plus 75 IU LH [one ampule] intramuscular daily for 9-12 days. If pregnancy still does not result, increase the dose to 2 ampules daily for 9-12 days.
4. Human menopausal gonadotropins [hMG] is known as menotropins consist of FSH 75 IU and LH 75 IU for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection. Its mechanism of action is to induce maturation of follicles and expulsion of ova.
5. Treatment of hypothyroidism with combination of levothyroxin[TY] and liothyronine [T3].Levothyroxine 25 microgram per oral daily for 2 weeks, increasing the daily dose by 25 microgram for the next 2 weeks. Liothyronine 5 microgram daily for 2 weeks such as levothyroxine.

Surgical measures correction of congenital, tumors, for the lower genital tract. Surgical
excision of ovarian tumors restore fertility. Surgical relief of tuba uterine
obstruction due to salpingitis will reestablish fertility.

Sodium bicarbonate 500 mg two times one gram per oral daily will induce the secretion of cervix, uterus and tuba uterine become base or alkaline which are favorable media for sperma to “swim” which facilitate fertilization.

Base-forming foods.Diet with a large amount of vegetables and fruits on burning outside or inside the body leave an ash or residue in which the basic elements [sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium] predominate; where as cereals, meat, and fish foods leave an ash in which the acid forming elements [chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur] predomite.Such foods are spoken of a base forming and acid forming foods, respectively, and will influence the acid-base balance of the body, particularly [the cervix, uterus, and tuba uterine] can produce the alkaline secretion , which favorable for sperms life and motility, and then facilitate fertilization.
Source: Pilip B.Hawk et al.Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1954, p1097 and Appendix IV, p 1357-1364.

9. TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE MALE

Sunday, March 22, 2009

COUPLES EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS




EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS
Picture:Uterine tube insufflation [Rubin test]
On the right both tube are patent.
On the middle one tube is occluded and another is patent.
Onthe bottom side is lateral or side view with stethoscop on the
top-right side.
Source:Ralph C.Benson.OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, Oregon, 1971, p 670-671.

Successful treatment of infertility is possible only if an early and accurate diagnosis can be established. This requires an energetic and systematic approach by the clinician and the cooperation of both partners over a period of at least 3 months, with 4 office visits for the wife and 2-3 for the husband, both partners usually can be evaluated and the cause of infertility determined. Obscure or multiple causes of infertility may require more time and special technique of investigation.
The initial evaluation include discussion on the appropriate timing of intercourse, semen analysis in the male, confirmation of ovulation in the female, and, in majority of situations documentation of tuba uterine patency in the female.
A history of regular, cyclic, predictable, spontaneous menses usually indicates ovulatory cycles, which may be confirmed by urinary ovulation predictor kids, basal body temperature [BBT] graphs, or plasma progesterone measurements during the luteal phase of the cycle.

Tubal insufflation [Rubin test] for female examination.
The test is a safe office procedure in properly selected patients if CO2 [carbon dioxide] is employed and if the pressure is kept below 200 mm Hg [mercury]. Tubal insufflation [TI] at or about the time of ovulation is most likely to be revealing and successful. Auscultation over the lower abdomen with stethoscop during insufflation may disclose the whistle of gas passing through one tubal ostium or the other.
TI is indicated in the investigation of:
1.Primary or secondary infertility and
2.As a means of nonoperative tubolysis well after subsidence of salpingitis, appendicitis etc.
If tests of tubal patency were unsatisfactory, hysterosalpingography is done. The uterus and uterine tube fill slowly with the contrast media, the film after injection of radiopaque fluid may reveal the patent or and occluded tube.
Utero-tubal insufflation in infertile patients has both diagnostic and therapeutic value. Reported successful TI is known to enhance the likelihood of pregnancy.
Contraindications of TI are pregnancy, recent genital tract infection, uterine bleeding, recent dilatation and curettage or other uterine surgery, and serious cardiopulmonary disease
The woman receives a complete physical and pelvic examination.

The husband’s general physical examination, with emphasis on the genital and rectal examination, is done next. Penile, urethral, testicular, epididymal , and prostatic abnormalities are sought. Spermatozoal analysis is repeated on the third visit if the previous study was abnormal.
Testicular biopsy is indicated if oligospermia or azoospermia [very low sperm count analysis] is present.

1. TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

MALE INFERTILITY

INFERTILITY IN THE MALE

Male reproductive ability begins at about age 16.After approximately age 45 , fertility decreases, although men over 80 have fathered children.
Male infertility may due to the following causes:
1. Spermatozoal abnormalities : The normal values of semen [spermatic fluid] are as follows:
Volume:2.5-5 ml; pH:7.4; viscosities: moderate thin after 30 minutes. Motility [26.5 degree C] : More than 70 % motile at ejaculation; 60 % at 2 hours;25-40 % at 6 hours. Count: 50-120 million / ml. Morphology: Fewer than 30 % abnormal spermatozoal head. Color: Whitish, semi-gelatinous fluid.
Key diagnostic test is a semen analysis: Sperm counts of less than 13 million / ml, motility of less than 32 %, and less than 9 % normal morphology are associated with subfertility.[Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 2005, p 837] .
High fertility is assume to exist when the sperm count approaches 185 million / ml.[Ralph C. Benson .Obstetrics & gynecology, 1971, p667].
Spermatozoa survive longest in alkaline cervical secretions and are destroyed quickly if they remain in the acid vaginal fluid. Motility is arrested at pH 6.0 and motility does not return after sperms have been exposed to a pH less than 4 and will die.
2. Endocrine: Hypopituitarism or Hypogonadism and hypothyroidism are associated with
infertility.
3. Most instances of mechanical obstruction [congenital, inflammatory, or traumatic] in
epididymides and vas deferens occur here.
4. Varicocele may increase scrotal temperature and thus impair spermatozoal maturation.
5. Infection: Sexually transmitted disease such as gonorrhoe, syphilis, chlamydia,
trichomoniasis may cause infertility.
6. Erectile dysfunction [ED] is the failure to achieve erection, ejaculation or both..
It effects 10-25 % of middle age and elderly men. Diabetic, atherosclerosis and drug related cause account for more than 80 % of cases of ED in older men.

7. EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS

FEMALE INFERTILITY


INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE
Picture: All you need is love. Hope to have a
baby! Say it with flower!
God may keep and bless the couple!!!

A couple is said to be infertile:
1. If pregnancy does not result after one year of normal marital relations without
contraceptives;
2. if the woman conceives but aborts repeatedly;
3. if the woman bears one child but aborts repeatedly or fails to conceive thereafter.

14 % [10-15 %] of marriages are childless. In about 58 % of cases this is attributable to the female partner, 25 % attributable to the male partner and 17 % unexplained. Treatment may correct infertility but not sterility, which is absolute inability to reproduce.
Ovulation and conception may occur at any time from the menarche to the menopause. Conception is most likely to occur during the period of reasonably regular ovulation, which begin after adolescence and usually terminate before the menopause.
Female infertility may be due to the following causes:
Nutritional: Hypovitaminosis, protein deficiency, and iron deficiency anemia may cause infertility.
Endocrine : Hypopituitarism/hypothalamic may causes ovary failure to ovulate. Hypothyroidism results in anovulation , infertility, and abortion.
Infections: Vaginitis, cervicitis, endometritis of uterus mucosa and tuba uterine infection.
Tumor: Cervical tumors [polips, myomas]; uterine tumors [polyps, myomas]; ovarian tumors [follicle cysts, corpus luteum cysts] may disrupt function or destroy the ovary.
Congenital:uterine hypoplasia, tubal congenital atresia, ovarian agenesis.

6. INFERTILITY IN THE MALE.

FERTILIZATION and PREGNANCY


FERTILIZATION AND PREGNANCY .

She is going to have a baby. Hope a handsome son or a pretty girl.
God may keep and bless the couple.

In human, fertilization of the ovum by the sperm usually occurs in the midpoint of the uterine tube. Penetration of the ovum by the sperm and the initiation of the cell division, which begin at once, may be brought about by lysosomal enzymes in the acrosome [head] of the sperm. Only one sperm penetrate the ovum, because once the ovum has been fertilized a barrier forms around it that normally prevents other sperms from entering.
The developing embryo, now called a blastocyst, moves down the tube into the uterus. Once in contact with the endometrium [of uterus], the blastocyst becomes surrounded by the outer layer of syncytio-trophoblast, which it erodes the endometrium, and the blastocyst burrows in to it [implantation].The implantation side is usually on the dorsal wall of the uterus. A placenta then develops and the trophoblast remains associated with it.
As pregnancy advances the products of conception increase in size and eventually occupy the whole of the uterus cavity, the growing embryo [foetus] attached by its umbilical cord to the placenta is bathed by amniotic fluid which is contained within the “bag of membranes” consisting of the amnion. The function of the amniotic fluid is to provide space for embryo growth and movements and to distribute the pressure due to uterine contractions evenly over the embryo.
Endocrine change:
In women , the corpus luteum in the ovary at time of fertilization fails to regress and instead enlarges in response to stimulation by gonadotropic hormones secreted by the placenta. The placental gonadotropin in humans called human chorionic gonadotropin [hCG].The enlarged corpus luteum of pregnancy secretes estrogens and progesterone. There are degenerative changes in corpus after the fifth month, but it persists through out pregnancy; hCG secretion decreases after an initial marked rise, but estrogen and progesterone secretion increases until just before parturition.

5. INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM




THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM




Picture: Couples have truelove!!!

Say it with flower

The female reproductive organs consist of the ovary, Fallopian or uterine tube, uterus and vagina.
Menstrual cycle:
The reproductive system of the female, unlike that of male, shows regular cyclic change that happen may be regarded as periodic preparation for fertilization and pregnancy. In human being, the cycle is a menstrual cycle, and its most conspicuous feature is the periodic vaginal bleeding that occurs with the shedding of the uterine mucosa [menstruation].
The length of the cycle is notoriously variable in women, but an average figure is 28 days from the start of one menstrual period to the start of the next. By common usage, the days of the cycle are identified by number, starting with the first day of menstruation.
Ovarian cycle or ovulation:
Under the ovarian capsule there are from the time of birth many primordial follicles, each containing an immature ovum. At the start of each cycle, several of this follicles enlarge and a cavity forms around the ovum. In humans, one of the follicles in one ovary starts to grow rapidly on about the sixth day, while the others regress. At about the 14th day of cycle, the distended follicle ruptures and the ovum is extruded into the abdominal cavity. This is the process of ovulation. The ovum is pick up by the fimbriae ends of the fallopian tubes and transported to the uterus , and, unless, fertilization occurs, it goes out through the vagina. Follicle which enlarge but fail to ovulate degenerate, forming atretic follicles.
The ovum lives for approximately 72 hours after it is extruded from the follicle, and the sperms apparently survive in female genital tract for no more 120 hours. Consequently, the fertile period during a 28 day cycle [period of menses] is actually 120 hours in length; and the most fertile period is 24 hours before ovulation.

4. FERTILIZATION AND PREGNANCY.

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM


THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
Picture: Male reproductive organs.
Source: William F.Ganong. ibid, p 318
The testes are made up a series of convoluted seminiferous tubules along the wall of which the spermatozoa are formed from the primitive germ cells [spermatogenesis]. The tubules drain into a network of ducts in epididymis. From there , spermatozoa pass into the vas deferens. They enter through the ejaculatory ducts into the urethra in the body of the prostate at the time of ejaculation. Between the tubules in the testes are nests of cells containing lipid granules, the interstitial cells of Leydig, which secrete testosterone into the blood stream.
Effect of temperature:
Spermatogenesis requires a temperature considerably lower than that of the interior of the body .When testes are in the scrotum, they are kept cool enough for spermatogenesis to proceed normally. When they are retained in the abdomen or when, in experimental animals, they are held close to the body by tight cloth binders, degeneration of the tubular walls and sterility result.
Spermatozoa are first produced at puberty and spermatogenesis activity is maintained into old age, so that there is no definite end to reproductive life in the male.
Semen
The fluid that is ejaculated at the time of orgasm, the semen, contains sperms and the secretions of the seminal vesicles, prostate, Cowper’s glands, and the urethral glands. The volume per ejaculate is 2-5 ml after 3 days of continence. There are normally about 80-120 million sperms / ml of semen, even though it takes only one sperm to fertilize the ovum. Human sperms move at the speed of 3 mm/ min through the female genital tract.
Composition of human semen:
Color: White opalescent.. Specific gravity:1.028.pH: 7.3-7.5.
Sperm count: Average about 100 million/ ml, .with fewer than 20 % abnormal forms.
Other components: Fructose, ascorbic acid from seminal vesicle [60 % of total volume]. Citric acid , cholesterol, phospholipids, fibrinolysin, fibrinogenase and prostaglandins from prostate [20 % of total volume]. Phosphate and bicarbonate as buffers.
Fructose is an important constituent of the medium in which spermatozoa are stored in vitro for use in artificial insemination.

3. THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

THE SEX CHROMOSOMES


1.THE HUMAN SEX CHROMOSOMES.
Picture:The sex chromosomes as the basis of human sex determination
Source: William F.Ganong.MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY, California,1971, p 308

Sex is determined genetically by 2 chromosomes called the sex chromosomes to distinguish them from the other somatic chromosomes [autosomes]. It is now clear that in man there are 46 chromosomes : in males, there are 22 pairs of autosomes plus a large X chromosome and a small Y chromosome ; in females, there are 22 pairs of autosomes plus 2 X chromosomes.
When a sperm containing a Y chromosome fertilize an ovum, an XY pattern results an the zygote develops into a genetic male. When fertilization occurs with an X-containing sperm, an XX pattern and a genetic female result.
Because the human Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome, it has been hypothesized that the sperms containing the Y are lighter and able to “swim” faster up the female genital tract, thus reaching the ovum more rapidly. This supposedly accounts for the fact that the number of males born is slightly greater than the number of females.

Friday, March 20, 2009

SITUATION AND PROBLEM

WELCOME AND HAPPY SPRING 2009!
COUPLES, DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS?
COUPLES LOVE TOGETHER!
SAY IT WITH FLOWER!!!

SITUATION & PROBLEM OF COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN [CWWC]

THE SITUATION.

There are 14 % of reproductive-age women; 5 million couples in the United States of America are childless or infertile. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse.[Harrisons. Manual of Medicine, 2005, p 846].
A study in South-eastern Bangladesh, examined the extent to which couples preference for male babies could be preventing a further decline in fertility through an impact on contraceptive use that determines fertility rates. Married couples-over 7500 “just married” couples, in fact were also the subject of a prospective study carried out in Shanghai, China. Results published in 2000 showed that despite a high rate of contraceptive use [about 80 % of married couples], half of the couples with one child had experienced one or more unintended pregnancies following the birth of their first child . It may be because of sex preference male or female babies birth and contraceptive failure. [WHO G eneva.2002, p 11].
In patriarchal culture societies there are the tendencies of couples preference for male babies; and in matriarchal culture societies the tendencies of couples preferences for female babies.
What are we talking about? In these texts we are talking about:
Infertility, childless, couples who wish children.
Couples preference for male babies.
Couples preference for female babies.

THE PROBLEM

What is the problem ? Einstein once said that the most important act of thinking a person can do is to define a problem, because anyone can work out a solution.
Can we help or treat the infertile couples to have children births ? Yes, we can.
Can we help or treat the couples preference male births? Yes, we can.
Can we help or treat the couples preference female births ? Yes, we can.
How serious problem is it
?
There are 14 % of reproductive age women infertility in USA, it is estimated about 120 million couples are infertile in the worldwide.
Every year about 210 million women become pregnant, it is estimated that more than a half or about 110 million couples preference male births and less than a half or 100 million preference female as well as preference indifference births.
Some 340 million cases of curable sexually transmitted infections [STIs] caused mainly by bacteria, are estimated to occur worldwide every year, the STIs may cause the infertility for the couples transmitted infections. In many countries, STIs are among the top five conditions for which men and women seek care and thus considerable drain on resource-strapped health services.
[WHO.Geneva, 2002, p 31].

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Couples who wish children [Full descripsion].






COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN
[Full descripsion]

BACKGROUND.

Reproductive and sexual health are at the core of people’s lives and well-being. The ability to develop in a supportive environment and grow into a sexually responsive and responsible adult, the ability to enjoy one’s sexuality without harming or infecting oneself or one’s partner, and the ability to have children by choice are among the unique attributes that define us as human..
A strong focus on reproductive and sexual health is justified not only on the ground of human right, equity, and social justice. There are strong public health argument, too, since reproductive ill-health contribute in such large measure to global burden of disease.
The purpose of this writing is to give information on reproductive ill-health in popular style, rather than technical style about the topic:
COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN.


This writing is based on the experience of the writer to help and to treat the COUPLES WHO WISH CHILDREN to have children since 1969,40 years ago, while the writer was a physician [MD] in Sibolga General Hospital and Chief of Municipality Health Services in Sibolga City,Tapanuli,North Sumatra, Indonesia.




Emphasis has always been placed upon the clinical application of knowledge derived from anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and others medical references, as well as the experience of the writer as a physician [MD] since 1965.”Experience is the best teacher” as the saying goes.
The basic principle of writing is in popular style have been based on situation, problem, solution and evaluation. Be this is may be writing has been of value for reviewing by the postgraduate physician, and it also served the “just graduate “physicians the nurses, the midwifes, paramedical workers, and to whom it may concern.
I am grateful to many associates, students, and correspondents from many parts of the world who have made helpful criticisms and suggestions. Thanks are due to my colleague Dr Halim Wibisono, Drs Sutejo Muliodiharjo, Mudiyono and Arif for reviewing portion of the manuscript and computer processing.

THE SITUATION.

There are 14 % of reproductive-age women; 5 million couples in the United States of America are childless or infertile. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse.[Harrison's. Manual of Medicine, 2005, p 846].
A study in South-eastern Bangladesh, examined the extent to which couples preference for male babies could be preventing a further decline in fertility through an impact on contraceptive use that determines fertility rates. Married couples-over 7500 “just married” couples,




in fact were also the subject of a prospective study carried out in Shanghai, China. Results published in 2000 showed that despite a high rate of contraceptive use [about 80 % of married couples], half of the couples with one child had experienced one or more unintended pregnancies following the birth of their first child . It may be because of sex preference male or female babies birth and contraceptive failure. [WHO Geneva.2002, p 11].
In patriarchal culture societies there are the tendencies of couples preference for male babies; and in matriarchal culture societies the tendencies of couples preferences for female babies.

Picture: "Just married" couple want child soon or
birth spacing, honey year instead of honey
moon ?
Source: B.P.S.,SDKI, Indonesia, 2007, P 4.



Picture: A beautiful bride with a nice traditional
dress; is she a matriarchal bride ?
Source:B.P.S.,SKRRI, Indonesia, 2007, p cover.


What are we talking about? In these texts we are talking about:
Infertility, childless, couples who wish children.
Couples preference for male babies.
Couples preference for female babies.
Couples "just married" after birth spacing or honey year wish or want children.

THE PROBLEM

What is the problem ? Einstein once said that the most important act of thinking a person can do is to define a problem, because anyone can work out a solution.
Can we help or treat the infertile couples to have children births ? Yes, we can.
Can we help or treat the couples preference male births? Yes, we can.
Can we help or treat the couples preference female births ? Yes, we can.
How serious
a problem is it ?
There are 14 % of reproductive age women infertility in USA, it is estimated about 120 million couples are infertile in the worldwide.
Every year about 210 million women become pregnant, it is estimated that more than a half or about 110 million couples preference male births and less than a half or 100 million preference female as well as preference indifference births.
Some 340 million cases of curable sexually transmitted infections [STIs] caused mainly by bacteria, are estimated to occur worldwide every year, the STIs may cause the infertility for the couples transmitted infections. In many countries, STIs are among the top five conditions for which men and women seek care and thus considerable drain on resource-strapped health services.
[WHO.Geneva, 2002, p 31].

THE SOLUTION

How to solve the problems? What is to be has been done ?
Theoretical problems in the sciences [physics, chemistry etc. ] have exact solutions which can eventually be found. However, with real life problems, an absolute solutions not always possible; a compromise or partial solution often to be found, according to the methods and technologies available. The approach and steps of solution reflect our common efforts providing people with the information and services need to manage their fertility or infertility, depict as follows:














Picture: A Balinese Barong dancer

with a nice funny dress, Bali,
Indonesia; is he a patriarchal man?




1. The sex chromosomes.
2. Male reproductive system.
3. Female reproductive system.
4. Fertilization and pregnancy.
5. Infertility in the female.
6. Infertility in the male.
7. Examination and diagnosis.
8. Treatment of infertility in the female.
9. Treatment of infertility in the male.
10. Advise for couples to have children births.
11. Advise for couples to have preference male births.
12. Advise for couples to have preference female births.
13. Making pregnancy saver.
14. Normal pregnancy and delivery
15. Curable sexual transmitted infections [STIs].

1.THE SEX CHROMOSOMES.

Sex is determined genetically by 2 chromosomes called the sex chromosomes to distinguish them from the other somatic chromosomes [autosomes]. It is now clear that in man there are 46 chromosomes : in males, there are 22 pairs of autosomes plus a large X chromosome and a small Y chromosome ; in females, there are 22 pairs of autosomes plus 2 X chromosomes.
When a sperm [male gamete cell] containing a Y chromosome fertilize an ovum [woman egg cell], an XY pattern results an the zygote develops into a genetic male. When fertilization occurs with an X-containing sperm, an XX pattern and a genetic female result.
Because the human Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome, it has been hypothesized that the sperms containing the Y are lighter and able to “swim” faster up the female genital tract, thus reaching the ovum more rapidly. This supposedly accounts for the fact that the number of males born is slightly greater than the number of females.

2.THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.

The testes are made up a series of convoluted seminiferous tubules along the wall of which the spermatozoa are formed from the primitive germ cells [spermatogenesis]. The tubules drain into a network of ducts in epididymis. From there , spermatozoa pass into the vas deferens. They enter through the ejaculatory ducts into the urethra in the body of the prostate at the time of ejaculation. Between the tubules in the testes are nests of cells containing lipid granules, the interstitial cells of Leydig, which secrete testosterone into the blood stream.


Effect of temperature


Picture:The male reproductive system

Source:William F. Ganong.

Medical Physiology,

California,1971, p 318

Spermatogenesis requires a temperature considerably lower than that of the interior of the body .When testes are in the scrotum, they are kept cool enough for spermatogenesis to proceed normally. When they are retained in the abdomen or when, in


experimental animals, they are held close

to the body by tight cloth binders, degeneration of the tubular walls and sterility
result.
Spermatozoa are first produced at puberty and spermatogenesis activity is maintained into old age, so that there is no definite end to reproductive life in the male.
Semen
The fluid that is ejaculated at the time of orgasm, the semen, contains sperms and the secretions of the seminal vesicles, prostate, Cowper’s glands, and the urethral glands. The volume per ejaculate is 2-5 ml after 3 days of continence. There are normally about 80-120 million sperms / ml of semen, even though it takes only one sperm to fertilize the ovum. Human sperms move at the speed of 3 mm/ min through the female genital tract.
Composition of human semen:







Picture: The structure of the testis

Color: White opalescent. Specific gravity: 1.028.pH: 7.3-7.5.
Sperm count: Average about 100 million/ ml, .with fewer than 20 % abnormal forms.
Other components: Fructose, ascorbic acid from seminal vesicle [60 % of total volume]. Citric acid , cholesterol, phospholipids, fibrinolysin, fibrinogenase and prostaglandins from prostate [20 % of total volume]. Phosphate and bicarbonate as buffers.
Fructose is an important constituent of the medium in which spermatozoa are stored in vitro for use in artificial insemination.



The key diagnostic test in a semen analysis: Sperm counts of less than 13 million /ml, motility of less than 32 % , and less than 9 % normal morphology are associated with subfertility. Testosteron levels should be measured if the sperm count is low on repeated exam.
[Source:Harrison's Manual of Medicine.2005,p 837.]

Picture: Female reproductive system, side view.

lateral or side view.


Source: William F.Ganong, 1971, p 324






3. FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM.



Picture : Female reproductive system, the right side is front view, and the upper left side is

lateral or side view.



The female reproductive organs consist of the ovary, Fallopian or uterine tube, uterus and vagina.
Menstrual cycle:
The reproductive system of the female, unlike that of male, shows regular cyclic change that happen may be regarded as periodic preparation for fertilization and pregnancy. In human being, the cycle is a menstrual cycle, and its most conspicuous feature is the periodic vaginal bleeding that occurs with the shedding of the uterine mucosa [menstruation].
The length of the cycle is notoriously variable in women, but an average figure is 28 days from the start of one menstrual period to the start of the next. By common usage, the days of the cycle are identified by number, starting with the first day of menstruation.
Ovarian cycle or ovulation:
Under the ovarian capsule there are from the time of birth many primordial follicles, each containing an immature ovum. At the start of each cycle, several of this follicles enlarge and a cavity forms around the ovum. In humans, one of the follicles in one ovary starts to grow rapidly on about the sixth day, while the others regress. At about the 14th day of cycle, the distended follicle ruptures and the ovum is extruded into the abdominal cavity. This is the process of ovulation. The ovum is pick up by the fimbriae ends of the fallopian tubes and transported to the uterus , and, unless, fertilization occurs, it goes out through the vagina. Follicle which enlarge but fail to ovulate degenerate, forming atretic follicles.
The ovum lives for approximately 72 hours after it is extruded from the follicle, and the sperms apparently survive in female genital tract for no more 120 hours. Consequently, the fertile period during a 28 day cycle [period of menses] is actually 120 hours in length; and the most fertile period is 48 hours before ovulation.

Source:William F.Ganong.Medical Physiology,California, 1971, p 324


4. FERTILIZATION AND PREGNANCY.

In human fertilization of the ovum by the sperm usually occurs in the midpoint of the uterine tube. Penetration of the ovum by the sperm and the initiation of the cell division, which begin at once, may be brought about by lysosomal enzymes in the acrosome [head] of the sperm. Only one sperm penetrate the ovum, because once the ovum has been fertilized a barrier forms around it that normally prevents other sperms from entering.
The developing embryo, now called a blastocyst, moves down the tube into the uterus. Once in contact with the endometrium [of uterus], the blastocyst becomes surrounded by the outer layer of syncytio-trophoblast, which it erodes the endometrium, and the blastocyst burrows in to it [implantation].The implantation side is usually on the dorsal wall of the uterus. A placenta then develops and the trophoblast remains associated with it.
As pregnancy advances the products of conception increase in size and eventually occupy the whole of the uterus cavity, the growing embryo [foetus] attached by its umbilical cord to the placenta is bathed by amniotic fluid which is contained within the “bag of membranes” consisting of the amnion. The function of the amniotic fluid is to provide space for embryo growth and movements and to distribute the pressure due to uterine contractions evenly over the embryo.
Endocrine change:
In women , the corpus luteum in the ovary at time of fertilization fails to regress and instead enlarges in response to stimulation by gonadotropic hormones secreted by the placenta. The placental gonadotropin in humans called human chorionic gonadotropin [hCG].The enlarged corpus luteum of pregnancy secretes estrogens and progesterone. There are degenerative changes in corpus after the fifth month, but it persists through out pregnancy; hCG secretion decreases after an initial marked rise, but estrogen and progesterone secretion increases until just before parturition.

5. INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.


A couple is said to be infertile:
1. If pregnancy does not result after one year of normal marital relations

without contraceptives;
2. if the woman conceives but aborts repeatedly;
3. if the woman bears one child but aborts repeatedly or fails to conceive

thereafter.

14 % [10-15 %] of marriages are childless. In about 58 % of cases this is attributable to the female partner, 25 % attributable to the male partner and 17 % unexplained. Treatment may correct infertility but not sterility, which is absolute inability to reproduce.
Ovulation and conception may occur at any time from the menarche to the menopause. Conception is most likely to occur during the period of reasonably regular ovulation, which begin after adolescence and usually terminate before the menopause.
Female infertility may be due to the following causes:
Nutritional: Hypovitaminosis, protein deficiency, and iron deficiency anemia may cause infertility.
Endocrine : Hypopituitarism/hypothalamic may causes ovary failure to ovulate. Hypothyroidism results in anovulation , infertility, and abortion.
Infections: Vaginitis, cervicitis, endometritis of uterus mucosa and tuba uterine infection.
Tumor: Cervical tumors [polips, myomas]; uterine tumors [polyps, myomas]; ovarian tumors [follicle cysts, corpus luteum cysts] may disrupt function or destroy the ovary.
Congenital:uterine hypoplasia, tubal congenital atresia, ovarian agenesis.

6. INFERTILITY IN THE MALE.

Male reproductive ability begins at about age 16.After approximately age 45 , fertility decreases, although men over 80 have fathered children.
Male infertility may due to the following causes:
1. Spermatozoal abnormalities :.The normal values of semen [spermatic fluid] are as follows:
Volume:2.5-5 ml; pH:7.4; viscosities: moderate thin after 30 minutes. Motility [26.5 degree C] : More than 70 % motile at ejaculation; 60 % at 2 hours;25-40 % at 6 hours. Count: 50-120 million / ml. Morphology: Fewer than 30 % abnormal spermatozoal head. Color: Whitish, semi-gelatinous fluid.
Key diagnostic test is a semen analysis: Sperm counts of less than 13 million / ml, motility of less than 32 %, and less than 9 % normal morphology are associated with subfertility.[Harrison’s Manual of Medicine, 2005, p 837] .
High fertility is assume to exist when the sperm count approaches 185 million / ml.[Ralph C. Benson .Obstetrics & gynecology, 1971, p667].
Spermatozoa survive longest in alkaline cervical secretions and are destroyed quickly if they remain in the acid vaginal fluid. Motility is arrested at pH 6.0 and motility does not return after sperms have been exposed to a pH less than 4 and will die.
2. Endocrine: Hypopituitarism or Hypogonadism and hypothyroidism are associated with infertility.
3. Most instances of mechanical obstruction [congenital, inflammatory, or traumatic] in epididymides and vas deferens occur here.
4. Varicocele may increase scrotal temperature and thus impair spermatozoal maturation.
5. Infection: Sexually transmitted disease such as gonorrhoe, syphilis, chlamydia, trichomoniasis may cause infertility.
6. Erectile dysfunction [ED] is the failure to achieve erection, ejaculation or both..
It effects 10-25 % of middle age and elderly men. Diabetic, atherosclerosis and drug related cause account for more than 80 % of cases of ED in older men.



7. EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS

Successful treatment of infertility is possible only if an early and accurate diagnosis can be established. This requires an energetic and systematic approach by the clinician and the cooperation of both partners over a period of at least 3 months, with 4 office visits for the wife and 2-3 for the husband, both partners usually can be evaluated and the cause of infertility




Picture:Tubal insufflation test [Rubin test]

The first picture, both tuba uterin are patent, front view.

The second picture, right tube is occluded, and left tube is patent, front view.

The third picture is lateral or side view,with stethoscop on the left side.

Source: Ralph C. Benson.OBSTETRICS &GYNECOLOGY, 4th edition, 1971, p 670-671


determined. Obscure or multiple causes of infertility may require more time and special technique of investigation.
The initial evaluation include discussion on the appropriate timing of intercourse, semen analysis in the male, confirmation of ovulation in the female, and, in majority of situations documentation of tuba uterine patency in the female.
A history of regular, cyclic, predictable, spontaneous menses usually indicates ovulatory cycles, which may be confirmed by urinary ovulation predictor kids, basal body temperature [BBT] graphs, or plasma progesterone measurements during the luteal phase of the cycle.

Tubal insufflation [Rubin test] to the wife..
The test is a safe office procedure in properly selected patients if CO2 [carbon dioxide] is employed and if the pressure is kept below 200 mm Hg [mercury]. Tubal insufflation [TI] at or about the time of ovulation is most likely to be revealing and successful. Auscultation over the lower abdomen during insufflation may disclose the whistle of gas passing through one tubal ostium or the other.
TI is indicated in the investigation of:
1.Primary or secondary infertility and
2.As a means of nonoperative tubolysis well after subsidence of salpingitis, appendicitis etc.
If tests of tubal patency were unsatisfactory, hysterosalpingography is done.
Utero-tubal insufflation in infertile patients has both diagnostic and therapeutic value. Reported successful TI is known to enhance the likelihood of pregnancy.
Contraindications of TI are pregnancy, recent genital tract infection, uterine bleeding, recent dilatation and curettage or other uterine surgery, and serious cardiopulmonary disease
The woman receives a complete physical and pelvic examination.

The husband’s general physical examination, with emphasis on the genital and rectal examination, is done next. Penile, urethral, testicular, epididymal , and prostatic abnormalities are sought. Spermatozoal analysis is repeated on the third visit if the previous study was abnormal.
Testicular biopsy is indicated if oligospermia or azoospermia [very low sperm count analysis] is present.

8. TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE FEMALE.

The treatment of infertility should be tailored to the problems unique to each couple, treatment in all cases depend upon correction of the underlying disorder or disorders suspected of causing infertile and wishing children.
Nutritional : protein, energy, vitamin and mineral deficiencies must be corrected
Good nutrition for stability of body weight, requires that energy and protein intake, vitamins and minerals are balanced over time. The average energy intake is about 2800 kcal/ day for men and about 1800 kcal/ day for women, the protein need is about one gram/ kg body weight per day, though these estimates vary with age, body size and activity level.


Additional vitamins which support better fertility is better gives to the women as such as:
1.Vitamin A 20 000 IU per oral [PO] daily. Since the lack of vit A interferes with the process of ovulation, an adequate dietary supply of this vitamin necessary for normal fertility.
2.Vit E-alpha tocopherol 100 IU , per oral once daily. If vit E deficiency in female, ovarian function is normal but uterine physiology is disturbed. There is partial failure of implantation, and the fertilized ova implanted grow and develop only to a certain stage , at which time the embryo show generalized hemorrhage, die, and is aborted or resolved. Administration of vit E during the first half of gestation permits normal embryo development and parturition.
3.Vit C 500 mg , per oral once daily. Vit C is concerned fundamentally with the formation of intercellular substances, including the collagen of fibrous tissue structures, the matrices of bone, cartilage, and dentin, and all non epithelial cement substance, including of vascular endothelium. Administration of vit C, within a few hours rapid repair of tissues in wounds and bone fractures, and is an important factor in determining resistance to infection.
Source: Philip B. Hawk, Ph.D., Sc. D. [Hon].Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1954, p 1104-1296.

Treatment of endocrine disorders.
1. Estrogenic hormone: Estradiol 1 mg once daily for the 6th-11h day of the woman menses, this hormone will stimulate the ovulation on the 14th day of menses, and hope the next menses on the 28th day of menses.
2. Clomiphene citrate is administered in dose of 100 mg/ day for 5 days. Clomiphene is used in the treatment of disorder of ovulation in patient who wish children. Usually, a single ovulation is induced by a single course of therapy, and the patient must be treated repeatedly until pregnancy is achieved. The compound is no of value in patients with pituitary failure.
3. The gonadotropins are produced by a single type of pituitary cell..These hormones serve complementary functions in the reproductive process. The follicle stimulating hormone [FSH] and luteinizing hormone [LH] from anterior pituitary gland control the function of ovary. The FSH is responsible for the early maturation of the ovarian follicles; that FSH and LH together are responsible for their final maturation. The doses begin with 75 IU FSH plus 75 IU LH [one ampule] intramuscular daily for 9-12 days. If pregnancy still does not result, increase the dose to 2 ampules daily for 9-12 days.Human menopausal gonadotropins [hMG] is known as menotropins consist of

4 Human menopausal gonadotropins [hMG] is known as menotropins consist of FSH 75 IU and LH 75 IU for subcutaneous or intramuscular injection. Its mechanism of action is to induce maturation of follicles and expulsion of ova.
5. Treatment of hypothyroidism with combination of levothyroxin[TY] and liothyronine [T3].Levothyroxine 25 microgram per oral daily for 2 weeks, increasing the daily dose by 25 microgram for the next 2 weeks. Liothyronine 5 microgram daily for 2 weeks such as levothyroxine.

Surgical measures correction of congenital, tumors, for the lower genital tract. Surgical
excision of ovarian tumors restore fertility. Surgical relief of tuba uterine
obstruction due to salpingitis will reestablish fertility.

Sodium bicarbonate 500 mg two times one gram per oral daily will induce the secretion of cervix, uterus and tuba uterine become base or alkaline which are favorable media for sperma to “swim” which facilitate fertilization.

Base-forming foods.Diet with a large amount of vegetables and fruits on burning outside or inside the body leave an ash or residue in which the basic elements [sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium] predominate; where as cereals, meat, and fish foods leave an ash in which the acid forming elements [chlorine, phosphorus, and sulfur] predomite.Such foods are spoken of a base forming and acid forming foods, respectively, and will influence the acid-base balance of the body, particularly [the cervix, uterus, and tuba uterine] can produce the alkaline secretion , which favorable for sperms life and motility, and then facilitate fertilization and pregnancy.
Source: Philip B.Hawk et al. Practical Physiological Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1954, p 1097 and Appendix IV, p 1357-1364.
The best position of the wife in intercourse on fertile period is genu-pectoral or knee-chest following by the husband on the upperside. The reason is that the semen ejaculated directly to the cervix hole and go down to the uterine cavity on the lower than normal position.

9. TREATMENT OF INFERTILITY IN THE MALE

Androgenic preparations are used when normal spermatogenesis is to be achieved. Androgen preparation for replacement therapy:
Methyltestosteron per oral 25-50 mg daily; sublingual ] 5-10 mg /day.
Fluoxymesterone per oral 10 mg / day or;
Testosterone, transdermal 2.5-10 mg/ day; or
Testosterone topical gel [1 %] 5-10 g gel / day; or
Testosteron intramuscular [IM] 30-60 mg daily for the husband, on the 5th day-11th day of the menses of his wife. Large dose of testosterone depress spermatogenesis, but if stop or intermittent low dose may be of value of some patients or relief the oligosperm. Harvey and Jackson have attributed the beneficial effect to more efficient erection and ejaculation and to improvement in the quality of the semen. Androgen therapy is contraindicated in patients with carcinoma of the prostate .
Source: Cecil & Loeb. A Textbook of Medicine, W.B. Saunders Company, USA, 1959, p 753.
Human chorionic gonadotropin [hCG] is injected IM at a dose of 75-150 units three times per week.
Treatment hypothyroidism with levothyroxine 50-100 microgram per day and liothyronine 10 microgram per day.
Sodium bicarbonate 500 mg per oral one gram twice daily, has the effect to induce alkaline the secretion of seminal vehicle, prostate and Cooper's gland which is favorable for spermatozoa media to move or propulsion.

Vitamin support spermatogenesis and strength of sperm motility:
Vitamin A 20 000 IU per oral daily and vitamin E 100 IU per oral daily , the purpose of these two vitamns are to stimulate spermatogenesis in the testes.
Neurotropic and neuronmyalgic vitamins such as tablet neurodex, consist of vitamin B1 100 mg, B6 200 mg and B12 250 microgram. The purpose of these vitamins are to strengthen motility of sperms in the semen of the husband and in the secretion of genital tract of his wife, and then to facilitate fertilization.
All of these vitamins can strengthen the health of the husband too.
Treatment of erectile dysfunction with testosreron 30-60 mg IM injecton or sildenafil [viagra brand name of Pfizer] per oral one hour before intercourse.


10.ADVICE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE CHILDREN BIRTHS.

Ovulation occurs approximately 14 days before the onset of the next menstrual period regardless of the length of time between period; when the cycle is regular, the time of ovulation and the fertile period can be anticipated.
The ovum lives for approximately 72 hours after it is extruded from the follicle and the sperms survive in female genital tract no more 120 hours [5 days].Consequently, the fertile period during in 28 day cycle [period of menses]is actually 120 hours [5 days] and the most fertile period is 24 hours [one day] at the day of ovulation .
The couple intercourse on the day of ovulation is most likely to result in pregnancy.
What does it mean?
The couple intercourse in the 5 days fertile period or in 10-14th day of menses may result fertilization, and in 14th day of menses is the most fertile period result of fertilization or pregnancy. The writer advice the couples to do a few intercourses on the day of ovulation if the couples fit to do , the more ejaculated hundreds million sperms on ovulation day will result of pregnancy.
If the menses cycle is 30 days, the fertile period is in the 12-16th days, and the most fertile period is on the 16th day, please do a few intercourse as you always fit to do, hopeful result pregnancy.

If oligosperm is present, the artificial insemination usually results in pregnancy, assuming female reproductive system is normal.
If medication treatment to the couples have not responded, the next step is to consult the patient to the Gynecologist for assisted reproductive technologies [ART] treatment. What are the ART ? The ART are techniques involving the direct retrieval of eggs from the ovary. Most of these procedures require ovarian stimulation with timed retrieval of oocytes [ova].
What is in vitro fertilization [IVF] ? the IVF is extraction of oocytes [through the vaginal wall under ultrasound guidance], fertilization in vitro in the laboratory, and trans-cervical transfer of the embryo into the uterus 2 days later. Usually requires 100 000 to 200 000 sperm per egg.
What are the indication of the IVF ? Previously damaged tubes, immunologic infertility [anti-sperm antibodies], extreme male factor infertility and unexplained infertility.
What is intracytoplasmic sperm injection [ICSI]?
Retrieval of oocytes followed by the injection of a single spermatozoon into the egg with a micropipette: embryos are then transferred to the uterus 2 days later.
What is indication for ICSI ? Oligospermia, sperm motility disorders.
The information of couples preference male or female, it seems not yet available in ART, IVF and ICSI.

Source: F. John Bourgeois et al. Obstetrics and Gynecology Recall, Virginia, 2008, p 509.
If treatment is not successful within 3 years, the physician must consider whether he should recommend adoption.
11. ADVISE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE PREFERENCE MALE BIRTHS.

Advise to the couples with 28 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs approximately on the 14th day of menses, the fertile period is in the 10-14th day of menses cycle, the last intercourse after wife menses is on the 8th day; please stop intercourse in 9-13th day of menses, and do intercourse a few times on the 14th day or on ovulation day as the couple feel fit , hopeful result male pregnancy. The reason is that the motility of the male genetic 22Y sperms are faster move than the female genetic 22X sperms to meet and fertilize the ovum on the ovulation day.
If the menses cycle is 30 days, the fertile period is in the 12-16th day of menses, the ovulation occurs on the 16th day, the last intercourse after wife menses is on the 10th day, please stop intercourse in 11-15th day of menses; and do intercourse a few times on the 16th day or on ovulation day, hopeful result male pregnancy.

12. ADVISE FOR COUPLES TO HAVE PREFERENCE FEMALE BIRTH.

Advice to the couples with 28 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs on the 14th day of menses, the fertile period is 10-14th day, the life of genetic male 22Y sperms is approximately 3 days, the life of female genetic 22X sperm is 5 days. The couple last intercourse after menses is on 10th day, please stop intercourse in 11-15th day, hopeful result female pregnancy. The reason is that the life of genetic male 22Y is 3 days, while stop intercourse in 11-15th day, the 22Y male sperms die on 13th day of menses, but the female genetic 22X sperms still live for next 2 days on 14-15th day, wait and fertilize the ovum on the 14th day of ovulation, hopeful result female pregnancy.

Advise to the couples with 30 days of menstrual cycle. The ovulation occurs on the 16th day of menses. The last intercourse after menses is on 12th day, please stop intercourse in 13-17th day, hopeful result female pregnancy. The reason is that the life of genetic 22Y male sperm is 3 days will die on the 15th day , but the genetic female 22X sperms are still live for the next 2 days in 16-17th day, wait and fertilize the ovum on the 16th day of ovulation, hopeful result female pregnancy.

EVALUATION.

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1. Can we help or treat the infertile couples to have children? Yes, we can ! How do we help them? The details of the solution were described on the steps [5-10] about the cause and treatment of infertility in the male and female; and then give advice to the couples to do the intercourse in the period of fertile 5 days before ovulation [extruded of female egg], and to do a few intercourses on the ovulation day 14th day of menses as the couples always feel fit, the most fertile day and the most likely result pregnancy. The others day are usually non fertile and free to do intercourse.
2. Can we help or treat the couples preference male births? Yes, we can! How do we help the couples? The details of the solution were described on the step 11 of solution, and give advice to the couples to stop intercourses 5 days before ovulation, and to do a few intercourses on the ovulation day, the most likely result of male pregnancy. The reason is that the genetic male 22Y is faster move than the genetic sperm 22X to the uterus and tuba uterine to meet and fertilize the ovum on the ovulation day and result male pregnancy. The others day are usually non fertile, and free to do intercourse.
3. Can we help or treat the couples preference female births ? Yes, we can ! The details of the solution were described on the step 12 of solution; and give advice to stop intercourse for 5 days [3 days before ovulation plus on the day of ovulation and one day after ovulation], hopeful result of female pregnancy .The others day are usually non fertile, and free to do intercourse.
4. What is the data of the treatment? The writer has experiences to help or treat the couples who wish children since 40 years ago, but no statistical data available. There is information, it is said that experience of Jules Black from Australia had the statistic said that the success of the treatment is 85%.
Source: VCD, PC. SOFTWARE .”Kesehatan Keluarga” [Family’s health]

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