Does COVID-19 stress leads to infertility?
A recent study shows that such a huge fear and anxiety coming along with the coronavirus can not only affect a person’s mental situation but could also have a huge impact on man’s sperm composition that could be problematic for future generations.
Impact of COVID-19 on Fertility...
Does stress due to COVID-19 leads to infertility?
Highlights
- COVID-19 has not been good to anybody across the globe.
- A recent study shows that such a huge fear and anxiety coming along with the coronavirus can not only affect a person's mental situation but could also have a huge impact on man's sperm composition that could be problematic for future generations.
COVID-19 has not been good to anybody across the globe. Be it rich or poor people had to face so many repercussions and this has not stopped yet completely. But slowly and steadily now people are trying to get indulged again in their normal lives that they were living before the pandemic came into the picture. This pandemic has raised numerous issues in the lives of normal people across the world. The world has gone under recession due to this virus leading to so many job losses. This has naturally increased the stress level of general people who were planning to start a new family before the pandemic hit harder for everybody.
There are so many people around the world who would be leading an amazing life before corona but now they have millions of tensions to deal with. This stress could affect their social, personal, and financial lives too. This has already caused concern among couples looking to have an additional member of their families. COVID-19 has added to the misery by drifting the situation into a much worse condition, as according to a new study by the University of Maryland School of Medicine stress increase due to coronavirus can alter sperm and even can impact brain development in the future generation.
Study
It was found in the study that such a huge fear and anxiety coming along with the coronavirus can not only affect a person's mental situation but could also have a huge impact on man's sperm composition that could be problematic for future generations. This study has tried to make people understand how paternal tension could be transferred to the babies through alterations in the extracellular vesicles that then linked with maturing sperm. Extracellular vesicles are membrane-bound particles that transport protein lipids, nucleic acids between cells. They are generated in huge quantity in the reproductive tract and has vital function to perform in sperm maturation.
Stress Can Affect Reproductive Ability
Increasing stress can be very bad for a person's reproductive abilities not only in the case of men but women also have to face a lot due to this as they many times are not able to conceive due to the increase in stress level. All this depicts that the decrease in stress is altogether good for human health. Numerous reasons are claiming that reducing stress is very beneficial but this research showcases a very important phase in understanding the crucial mechanism that underlies the field of intergenerational epigenetics.
Though for now no proper research is being done specifically on medical concerns for those who are trying to conceive during COVID-19 outbreak so can't explore enough on this but can wait till the researchers will give their full-fledged study based solely on direct medical concerns with pregnancy and COVID-19.
But till then it is very important to make sure that we don't allow stress to overpower our conscience. Try to socialize through technology. Watch television and spend quality time with your parents and family to avoid stress as much as possible as stress can't be good for anyone.