Contents:
- Medical Video: Can childhood episode of mumps affect sperm count in future? - Dr. Nupur Sood
- How can mumps in the testis make a man infertile?
- How to prevent?
Medical Video: Can childhood episode of mumps affect sperm count in future? - Dr. Nupur Sood
Thanks to the MMR vaccine, mumps cases may have been rare in Indonesia. Even so, some people might get this disease when they are adults because they did not get the vaccine as a child. In adult men, mumps can appear in the testicles. In medical language, the mumps in the testis are called orchitis. Orchitis can interfere with male fertility.
How can mumps in the testis make a man infertile?
Orchitis is inflammation that causes swelling of one or both sides of the testis in the scrotum. Orchitis usually attacks men over 45 years who have neck mumps. One in four men with mumps in the neck will also get mumps in the testicles. Mumps in this pubic area usually appear four to eight days after you recover from neck mumps.
Orchitis can cause the testicles to contract. According to one study, nearly fifty percent of orchitis sufferers can later experience shrinking testicular size. If this happens, the testicular volume decreases so of course it reduces adult sperm production.
In addition, viruses mumps the cause of mumps also has a role in the destruction of sperm cells. Viruses carried in the bloodstream to the testicles can attach to young sperm cells. As a result, the body will respond by forming antibodies to destroy the infected sperm cells. Some experts suspect that the structure of sperm cells bears a resemblance to viruses mumps so that the body often misidentifies healthy sperm cells and eventually gets destroyed along with the virus.
Mumps can also interfere with the structure that separates blood and testicular tissue. Indeed, these two areas do have to have separators so that they do not mix with each other. If this structure is damaged, there will be an inflammatory reaction in the testis which will affect sperm production. In fact, the testis has a vital role as a place of production and maturation of sperm cells.
However, unreported mumps in the testes have a direct impact on male fertility. The rate of infertility in orchitis patients is small, just under 50 percent.
How to prevent?
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Indonesian government have long launched an immunization program to minimize the risk of a number of dangerous diseases and their complications, including mumps through the MMR vaccine (measles /measles, mumps /mumps, and German measles/ rubella).
In addition to vaccines, you also still need to keep your immune system strong. Among other things with a healthy diet, regular exercise, and enough rest.
