What happens when a man's sperm freezes?

Male reproductive health is related to the continuation of the family line. The incidence of male infertility is caused by a variety of reasons. Male sperm is unhealthy and semen jelly disease is an important cause of male infertility. What should a male friend do if he finds that his sperm is abnormal?

What happens when sperm freezes?

After normal semen is ejaculated, it becomes thick and jelly-like under the action of coagulase secreted by the seminal vesicles. After 10 to >20 minutes of ejaculation, it liquefies under the action of fibrolytic enzymes secreted by the prostate gland and becomes thinner. Liquefaction time: less than 30 minutes. Abnormal liquefaction refers to the phenomenon that semen cannot be completely liquefied at least half an hour after ejaculation or begins to liquefy more than an hour. It includes semen that does not liquefy and semen that liquefies slowly, which is usually referred to as semen that does not liquefy.

If semen does not liquefy, sperm activity will be restricted, slowing down or inhibiting sperm from entering the uterine cavity for fertilization, thus causing infertility. Increased semen viscosity will affect sperm motility and survival rate. At the same time, the proteolytic enzymes contained in semen can liquefy the thick cervical mucus. Therefore, increased semen viscosity will also affect the ability of sperm to penetrate the cervical mucus, leading to infertility.

When semen is in a liquefied state at first, it is very conducive to ejaculation. Then it becomes a jelly state so that the semen can stay in the female vagina and not flow out easily. Then it liquefies again so that the sperm in the semen can fully move so that they can swim along the female reproductive tract to the fallopian tube, which is conducive to sperm and egg combination and fertilization. If this physiological process is not like this, it means that there is a problem with the semen.

Reasons for sperm not liquefying

The most common reasons for sperm liquefaction failure are insufficient prostate secretion of fibroprotein enzymes due to seminal vesiculitis and prostatitis, lack of trace elements (magnesium, zinc, etc.), congenital prostate agenesis, etc.

It is generally believed that the secretions of the prostate and seminal vesicles are involved in the coagulation and liquefaction of semen. The coagulation factors produced by the seminal vesicles cause the semen to coagulate, while the semen liquefaction factors such as protease and lysozyme produced by the prostate make the semen liquefy. Once the seminal vesicles or prostate become inflamed, the secretion of the above factors may be impaired, resulting in an increase in coagulation factors or a decrease in liquefaction factors, forming sperm liquefaction syndrome.

Therefore, the key to treating sperm liquefaction syndrome is to cure the seminal vesicle and prostate diseases. Most patients will also see improvement in sperm liquefaction after the prostate and seminal vesicle diseases are cured.