Ultrasound egg monitoring for infertility treatment: costly, useless!
Ultrasound egg monitoring is used in many places as a treatment for infertility. This method is also applied to the desire to have both “male and female”, along with the “whispering” method such as changing the vaginal environment, diet, and even changing sexual positions.
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| MSc. Dr. Ho Manh Tuong, General Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Association of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility - Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Reproductive Society. Photo: Bich Thao |
However, according to MSc. Dr. Ho Manh Tuong, general secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Association of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility - vice president of the Asia-Pacific Reproductive Society, all of the above measures are completely useless because they have no scientific basis.
According to Dr. Tuong, Vietnam has about 1 million infertile couples. If only 20% of them go for ultrasound to monitor their eggs at least twice a month at a cost of 100,000 VND, the amount of waste will be up to tens of billions of VND.
"Imagine how much the cost would increase if we added a group of couples who had ultrasounds to help them have children of the desired gender? This "nonsense" amount of money would increase to hundreds of billions of dong. And the most painful thing is that it would have no effect at all!" Dr. Tuong emphasized.
Doctor, why is ultrasound egg monitoring unreasonable and a waste of money?
Part of it comes from the patient's psychology. Medicine often calls it an illusion in treatment. Those who have longed for a child for a long time often do not have the patience to wait passively but must try to "do something" to gain the initiative. And so they use ultrasound to monitor the ovulation.
It should be noted that the probability of success is highest when having intercourse 2-3 days before ovulation. If you have intercourse on the day of ovulation, the possibility of pregnancy has decreased. This rate continues to decrease after 12 hours of ovulation and after that, it is considered "missed the boat".
That shows that using ultrasound to know the time of ovulation and then calculating the time and frequency of intercourse to have children is unscientific, even has the opposite effect. That is the possibility of miscarriage if you are lucky enough to get pregnant. The reason is that at that time, the eggs are old, the quality of the embryos is reduced.
Is this also useless with the desire to watch the eggs to give birth to a boy or a girl as desired?
Exactly!
Unfertilized sperm are all the same cells and their only job is to "run" to the egg. People have "sexed" the sperm themselves.
That's why there's the ultrasound to know when the egg is released and when it will come back. Husband and wife discuss all sorts of things from sexual positions, changing the vaginal environment to kill the X child, speeding up the Y child if they want a boy and vice versa if they're hoping for a girl...
Conception is a process of natural selection to create healthy children. The genes in the X and Y chromosomes themselves are not expressed in the sperm but only in the fetus after fertilization.
There is no mechanism to eliminate one and keep the other when they are the same. Any chemical method of affecting sperm can have effects on the fetus later.
If conception is best before ovulation, how do you know this?
According to current medical evidence, women can completely predict the time of ovulation based on the menstrual date and the phenomenon of clear cervical mucus secretion. From there, estimate the time of intercourse to easily get pregnant, within 3-5 days before ovulation.
If you have had regular intercourse for a long time without being able to conceive, you need to seek medical intervention for that abnormality, not just "ovulation" to improve the situation.
