Secondary is called infertility, when a woman can not become pregnant again after a pregnancy that has already occurred. This could be the successful gestation and birth of a healthy baby, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or abortion.
Secondary infertility in women
The most vulnerable to this disease is a beautiful sex, especially after 35 years. Often secondary infertility is diagnosed in middle-aged women who have chromosomal changes that also threaten serious gynecological diseases and the risk of the birth of an inferior child. Statistics show that miscarriages occur less frequently in young women.
The causes of infertility of the second degree can serve as some diseases:
- Hypofunction of the thyroid gland, when the thyroid gland produces an increased amount of hormones, which leads to impairment of the pituitary gland function. As a result, the hormonal background and menstrual cycle is broken, there is a risk of uterine fibroids and polycystic ovaries, which makes it almost impossible to bear the fruit.
- Gynecological diseases: inflammation of the cervix, fallopian tubes, ovarian cysts.
- Complications after unskilled curettage or abortion. In this case, the endometrium is irreparably damaged, and even a fertilized egg can not attach itself to the wall of the uterus. Diagnosis of infertility can be made both immediately after the operation, and after a few years.
- Injuries and damage to the genitals. Infertility in this case occurs due to hidden adhesions, scars, polyps. They are easily removed by surgery.
Secondary infertility in men
In men, also, infertility of the second degree is diagnosed, when conception has already occurred, but at the moment it does not happen at all. The reasons can be different:
- inflammation of the genitals;
- smoking, drinking alcohol;
- circulatory disorders;
- overheating and others.