Low sperm count? Low sperm count in men is caused by these factors

1. Mental depression and excessive fatigue: Depression and fatigue can affect sexual function and spermatogenesis.

2. Not paying attention to genital hygiene. For men, not paying attention to hygiene can cause glans inflammation, urinary tract infection, prostatitis, epididymitis, etc., which can reduce the quality of semen. During sexual intercourse, unclean male organs enter the female vagina, which can also cause a series of inflammations, thus affecting conception.

3. Malnutrition and partiality: The production of sperm requires raw materials, so reproductive function is closely related to nutritional levels. This does not necessarily mean eating soft-shelled turtles and yellow eels, but eating more lean meat, eggs, fish, and vegetables to ensure the supply of necessary proteins, vitamins, and trace elements is essential. People with partiality for food are often prone to certain nutritional deficiencies. Malnutrition, trace element deficiency, and vitamin deficiency can all lead to infertility.

4. Excessive riding of bicycles, motorcycles, tricycles and horses, etc.: This often causes chronic fatigue and congestion of the prostate and other accessory glands, affecting their functions, aggravating chronic inflammation, and affecting fertility.

5. Smoking and alcohol addiction will increase the incidence of infertility and deformed babies: Since cigarette smoke contains strong teratogens, smoking often reduces sperm count for men. If a man smokes 20 cigarettes a day, the sperm survival rate is only 50%, and there will be many deformed sperms. Excessive drinking will endanger the function of the reproductive system, cause endocrine disorders, and change the structure and number of chromosomes in reproductive cells. In the semen of long-term drinkers, the number of sperm decreases, the motility decreases, and it may lead to testicular atrophy, loss of libido, impotence, infertility and gynecomastia.

6. Wearing tight clothes for a long time: It will cause the scrotum's function of regulating temperature to be impaired, thus affecting reproductive function.

7. Frequent hot water baths: The testicles need an environment 1-1.5 degrees lower than the normal body temperature of 37 degrees to produce sperm. Data show that soaking in warm water at 43-44 degrees for 20 minutes for 3 consecutive days can reduce the sperm density of people with normal sperm density to less than 10 million/ml, and this situation can last for 3 weeks. The "warm contraception method" studied in recent years is based on this principle. Of course, it doesn't matter if you take a hot water bath 1-2 times a week for a short time. Frequent saunas or sitting on soft seats for a long time may cause male infertility, because high temperature environment will increase testicular temperature, reduce sperm activity, increase abnormal sperm count and even dead sperm. Therefore, generally speaking, the infertility rate of drivers and senior white-collar workers is higher than that of ordinary people.