What should you pay attention to before sperm quality test?

If a couple does not use any contraceptive methods within a year but still fails to conceive, in addition to the female's reasons, the most important thing for the male is the quality of semen. At this time, routine semen examinations should be performed in time. Before the routine semen examination, you must understand some precautions, such as abstaining from sexual intercourse 5 to 7 days before the examination. Let's take a look at this aspect.

What should you pay attention to before sperm quality test?

Semen routine is the abbreviation of semen routine examination. It is one of the simple and popular laboratory examination methods in urology, men's department and reproductive department. Semen is composed of sperm and seminal plasma, of which sperm accounts for 10% and the rest is seminal plasma. In addition to water, fructose, protein and fat, it also contains a variety of enzymes and inorganic salts. Semen contains zinc. It is also one of the important parameters often used for reference in gynecology.

The subject should abstain from sexual intercourse for 5-7 days after a period of frequent ejaculation (the interval between the last ejaculation and the sample collection should be at least 100 hours); prepare a clean dry container with a large mouth and a lid, collect semen through masturbation, ejaculate all of it into the container at once, cover it, and record the time when the sample leaves the body; keep it close to the body to keep it warm, send it to the laboratory within 30 minutes, and provide the inspector with the time when the sample was taken out.

Routine observation of semen:

Total volume of semen (ml), sperm activity, sperm density (pieces/ml), semen liquefaction time (time from specimen extraction to semen liquefaction), immotile sperm (pieces/high-power field of view), etc. Immotile sperm must be stained to distinguish:

Inactive sperm, dead sperm, immature sperm, etc. If no sperm is found, it must be centrifuged and tested. If no sperm is found, it can be reported as azoospermia. After three sampling tests, if no sperm is found, azoospermia can be confirmed. If you masturbate with your hands once during the abstinence period when you had a morning erection, but no semen or other secretions flowed out, it will not have much impact.