Fertility Treatments
Not As Effective As Natural Method - Infertility Experts Recommend
Infertile Couples to Keep Trying
July 16th 2006
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Amazingly, it appears some women that undergo fertility treatments are
less likely to get pregnant than those that don’t. These treatments can
be very expensive and produce multiple births, so researchers in the
Netherland hope to identify women with unexplained infertility.
About 10 percent of couples have trouble conceiving after one year of
trying. Of these, one third do not have any obvious problems.
The most common treatment is intrauterine insemination (IUI). This
involves collecting sperm and medically inserting it into the uterus.
Fertility drugs are then prescribed which stimulate egg production.
The researchers compared the outcomes of couples that underwent IUI and
those that did not. The amazing thing is that the women that did not
undergo the treatments had a slightly better chance of achieving an
ongoing pregnancy.
The researchers believe that they can determine which couples are likely
to benefit from treatment. Pieternel Steures, of the Center for
Reproductive Medicine in Amsterdam wrote in the July 15th
issue of the journal The Lancet, “Our study shows that identification of
couples who will not benefit from intrauterine insemination is
possible.”
Dan Wilson
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