Overcome Female Infertility - Types of Medication of Conventional Medication in Treating Infertility

   

  Conventional medicine has an important role in treating all kinds of diseases and is the first treatment for a couple who for some reason can not conceive after one year of unprotected sexual intercourse or can not carry the pregnancy more often term. With the advancement of medical technology, conventional medicine has proven track record in treating infertility, but with side effects. In this article, we will discuss definition, types and side effects of conventional drugs in the treatment of hormonal imbalance.

I. Definition   Conventional drugs used to treat hormonal imbalance agents that help stimulate the ovaries to produce mature eggs, which increases the chances of pregnancy containing sterile couple. The drug only women receiving ovulation dysfunction diagnosis occurs.

II. The types of drugs1. progesterone supplement   Types of medication used particularly for women with luteal insufficiency sentence (takes less than 10 days and is considered a deficiency in the luteal phase) Helps increase progesterone levels, thus preventing the development of abnormal uterine lining and interfere with the implantation of the fertilized egg.

2. introduce an ovulation agent A drug used for women with very irregular ovulation cycle excluding ovulation at all. It is used on 5-9 days of the effective cycle for young women with a rate of over 90% success rate, but only about 35% actually conceive.

3. follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)  These drugs are prescribed for women with a disorder ovation to stimulate follicle and egg production. It is recommended that the use of these drugs such as Gonal-f, Follistism, Fertinex and Metrodin®, should be closely monitored by your doctor to prevent ovarian hyperstimulation. They are widely used for intrauterine insemination.

Human menopausal gonadotropin 4. (HMG)   Medications such as Menopur, Pergonal, Humegeon. etc. help women who do not regularly ovulate to stimulate the ovaries to produce more than one egg to work directly on the ovaries to stimulate follicular development.

5. Humam chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)   HCG is a type of medication obtained directly from the placenta of pregnant women. It is chemically similar to the synthesis of LH, which leads to increase or enhance LH induces ovulation and causing an increase in egg production and lining carrier of the uterus in the implantation of the fertilized ovum . Medications include Novarel and Profasi.

6. gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH)   It helps regulate the pituitary gland in the production of FSH and LH, which reduces the risk of ovulation at the wrong time. In other words, the pituitary gland to produce FSH and LH in women who do not ovulate at all is stimulated. Medications include Fertrel and Lutrepulse.a) Agonist  Drug (leuprolide and Synarel) is used to block the production of eggs by the ovaries by regulating the secretion of hormones to the egg to reach a certain size, thereby increasing the quality of the egg and prevent releases premature egg for some women.

b) antagonistBy regulating the production of FSH and LH from the pituitary, which decreases LH surge triggers ovation at the wrong time. Is used when a woman undergoes procedure of fertility for artificial insemination, so that your doctor can better predict when the ovation of the egg retrieval.

7. Medical prolactin  For men and women with infertility due to an overproduction of the hormone prolactin disrupt production resulting FSH and LH, which leads to abnormal ovulation in women and low sperm quality in men.

III. Side effects  Common side effects of the above drugs include:1. Dizziness2. Hot flushes3. irregular menstruation4. Headaches5. Insomnia6. Irritability7. Vomiting8. Etc.

IV. Risk1. Complications2. ovarian hyperstimulation3. nervous disorders4. Ectopic pregnancy5. torque and ovarian cancer6. Cyst Development7. Etc.

  Almost 100% of women taking these drugs ovulate, but not all women become pregnant. If a couple can not conceive after taking female infertility treatment in its six first treatment of the possibility of pregnancy is reduced by 50%.