Primary infertility
Primary infertility is used in people who have never been pregnant. Sometimes the problem that causes infertility is congenital and sometimes it is acquired at other stages of life.
Factors affecting primary infertility:
• age increasing
• Weight Gain
• Stress
• life style
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Cigarettes, alcohol and drugs
• Hereditary and acquired diseases
• Uterine and ovarian disorders
• Sperm disorders
• Unknown disorders
Secondary infertility
Secondary infertility is when there is a history of infertility and infertility occurs after a previous pregnancy or miscarriage.
Factors affecting secondary infertility:
• Complications that occur during pregnancy or preterm delivery such as unsafe abortions, long-term rupture of the amniotic sac, postpartum infections, placental abruption, and subsequent infections
• Menstrual disorders
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• age increasing
• Weight Gain
• Environmental factors and lifestyle
• Autoimmune diseases
• Decreased sperm quality and quantity
• Unknown factors
Factors that lead to secondary infertility, some related to female infertility and some related to male infertility and sometimes due to unknown problems. The causes of infertility and treatment are largely similar in both types of infertility.