Dr Archana, How does a person become infertile?

Ans: Infertility or sub fertility basically means that a couple who's been living together having regular sexual intercourse and not using any contraception for a period of one year and they do not have a pregnancy or the conception. By definition, this would be infertility or sub fertility. The reasons are many like- there could be male factor or female factor, female factors involved blocked fallopian tubes, Polycystic Ovarian disease and ovulation, premature ovarian, failure genital tuberculosis, hormonal imbalances, fibroid uterus, severe endometriosis, uterine shape abnormalities and in rare cases in autoimmunity or rejection of the conception and low anti mullerian hormone or extremes of maternal age, In men or male factor, It is usually low or absent sperm counts or ejaculatory dysfunction.