Autoimmune Disease and Infertility

Your immune system is designed to protect you from bacteria or viruses that enter your body or any other harmful substances. But you’ll be surprised to know that the system that is responsible for defending you starts attacking the healthy cells. Some commonly found autoimmune diseases in India are:

• Certain types of thyroid diseases called Grave’s 
• Hashimoto’s, 
• Crohn’s disease 
• Along with ulcerative colitis, and
• some skin diseases.

Autoimmune disease can cause infertility to understand more about how an IVF hospital in Mumbai can help you read ahead.

What is an autoimmune disease?

An autoimmune disease is a common disorder in which your immune system makes antibody cells mistakenly charge against the healthy bacteria in your body.
The immune system normally guards against germs like bacteria and viruses that cause harm to you and your body. When your system senses these bad bacteria coming into your body or their presence in your bloodstream then it sends out a lot of fighter cells to kill them.

For the immune system, it’s a very easy thing to differ between the good entities and the bad entities.

In case someone has an autoimmune disease then their immune system goes haywire and their system starts attacking the bacteria or viruses that your body’s friend and not foe.

Some autoimmune diseases target only one organ like: 

Some organs can be damaged because this disorder, like:

• Diabetes (Type I ), damages the pancreas and the blood vessels along with your heart in the long term.
• SLE (Systemic lupus erythematosus), inflammation, and tissue damage in the body and some affected organs

The immune system–a foe?

This still remains a mystery as to why our system that is responsible for defending us goes all out on the substances that are supposed to help us.

Nowadays autoimmune diseases are a lot more common than they used to be. According to a medical study, women get autoimmune diseases at twice the rate of men. Often the disease starts at the age of 15-45 years for a woman’s i.e. her childbearing years.

Certain autoimmune diseases, like multiple sclerosis and lupus, are genetic and are inherited from your parents. Don’t forget, not every family member will develop the same condition, but they can have or carry the genes which may or may not develop later on.

With this condition becoming more common day by day it has been believed by the researchers that environmental factors like some chemicals and gases can be a cause. Some Geographical areas which have a lot of cases are also being studied for certain chemicals and their relation with our body’s immune system.

Autoimmune disorder and Infertility

There have been studies that show that autoimmune disorders and infertility are linked as autoimmune disease is linked to fighting the good bacteria in your body and with respect to fertility, fighting the things that help you conceive.

There are a lot of ways the autoimmune disease can affect your fertility health and they are:

Decreased Ovarian Reserve – FSH and AMH are the two hormones that affect your ovarian reserve and women who suffer from infertility should get themselves tested for autoimmune disorders. This can also be a sign of aging. Aging can also indicate this.

Thyroid Disease –Thyroid is a small gland that secretes growth hormones along with the hormones that influence ovulation in women. The chance of thyroid disease should be eliminated in all females with infertility. As thyroid can clearly affect your pregnancy.

Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome – Women who have a history of having miscarriages and have a history of abortion should get tested for this syndrome.
This is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies are formed to attack the placenta cells causing blockage and other pregnancy complications.

Antisperm Antibodies – Men can create antibodies to their own sperm which doesn’t sound good and it is not. This may reduce the sperm’s quality and/or ability to fertilize an egg.
These antibodies can be easily found in men who have a history of significant testicular injury or surgery like a vasectomy.

Treatment for infertility

Infertility is a condition that no one desires and on top of that from some medical condition where your own immune system attacks you. But unlike autoimmune disease infertility does have a treatment so that you can fulfill your dream of becoming a parent, Crysta IVF’s medical experts have said that people who suffer from the autoimmune disease can become parents through In-Vitro fertilization. Getting treatment from the best IVF centre in Mumbai can help you with attaining the best chances of successful treatment and that too at an affordable IVF treatment price.