Is it normal for sperm to be sticky?

If you accidentally find that your sperm has become sticky, you still need to go to the hospital for relevant examinations. After all, sperm is sticky only when it is just discharged, but it will become liquid after a few minutes. If there is no change, it means that your body is definitely abnormal. This is an abnormal reaction, which is probably caused by some substances secreted by the prostate and requires timely treatment.

1) Semen volume: Normal people ejaculate 2-5 ml each time. If it is less than 1 ml, it is abnormal. If the ejaculation is less than 0.5 ml each time, it is oligospermia. If there is no semen, it is azoospermia. Azoospermia and oligospermia are the main causes of male infertility. It is seen in lesions of the prostate or seminal vesicles, congenital ureteral obstruction or inflammatory stenosis, or retrograde ejaculation.

2) Color: Normally it is grayish white. It may be light yellow, milky white or slightly green when ejaculation has not occurred for a long time. It is seen in cases of infection in the reproductive tract or accessory glands. Red semen (hematospermia) is seen in cases of seminal vesiculitis, cancer, tuberculosis, etc.

3) Viscosity: Normal fresh semen is liquid, which quickly turns into a viscous, gelatinous semifluid after discharge, and then turns into a liquid again after 5 to 30 minutes.

If it still does not liquefy within 30 minutes, it is abnormal, which is seen in: lack or insufficiency of certain enzymes secreted by the prostate, or in reproductive system tuberculosis, which can also affect fertility.

4) Acidity and alkalinity (pH): Normally, the pH is weakly alkaline, between 7.7 and 8.5. Semen that is too acidic or too alkaline may affect sperm activity and metabolism, and is the main cause of sperm death (necrospermia).

5) Smell: Normal semen has a special fishy smell, which is emitted by prostatic fluid. This fishy smell comes from a certain component of prostatic fluid.

6) Sperm count: For a normal fertile man, each milliliter of semen contains 60 million to 150 million sperm, and sometimes up to 200 million. The total number of sperm discharged in one ejaculation is about 300 million or more, but the sperm content varies greatly from person to person, and even for the same person at different times. Therefore, calculating the total number of sperm discharged each time has greater diagnostic value than simply checking the sperm count.

Excessive sperm density (more than 250 million per milliliter) is called polyspermia. Excessive density often affects sperm activity. Even if conception occurs, miscarriage is prone to occur. The main reason is that the quality of the sperm itself is not high.

In order to evaluate male fertility, the fertility index (I) can also be used for research. It is mainly calculated by combining the percentage of active sperm (M), the number of sperm per milliliter of semen (N), the sperm movement speed (V), the percentage of abnormal sperm (A) and 10 as a constant. The formula is: I = MNV/A.106. If it is greater than 1, it means fertility, if it is 0, it means complete infertility, and if it is between 0 and 1, it means there is still a possibility of fertility.