What is ovulation induction therapy?

Many people may not know what ovulation induction treatment is. This is a common medical practice in recent years, especially for infertile women who want to conceive. Generally, they use ovulation induction to conceive. Ovulation induction is to promote ovarian ovulation and increase the secretion of progesterone. It is usually treated by taking ovulation drugs, then extracting the eggs, and then transferring them to the mother's body through artificial insemination after in vitro fertilization.

What is ovulation induction treatment?

The method used to promote ovulation is ovulation induction therapy. At present, the methods of ovulation induction treatment include: taking ovulation drugs, combined hormone therapy, surgical treatment, etc. are all methods of ovulation induction. Inducing ovulation helps increase women's chances of pregnancy.

How to stimulate ovulation?

Ovulation induction refers to the use of drugs and surgery to induce ovulation in the case of ovulation disorders, generally with the purpose of inducing the development of a single follicle or a few follicles.

Methods to induce ovulation include taking ovulation-inducing drugs, such as clomiphene, gonadotropin, or combined hormone therapy and surgical treatment. The development of follicles needs to be monitored while using ovulation-inducing drugs. Because ovulation disorders make it impossible to ovulate spontaneously, during the treatment of assisted reproductive technology, doctors usually use ovulation induction treatment to help women with ovulation disorders ovulate, thereby increasing the chance of pregnancy.

Side effects of ovulation-stimulating drugs

Ovulation-stimulating drugs are indeed effective for infertile people, and it is recommended to use them under the guidance of a doctor. What are the side effects of ovulation-inducing drugs? The side effects of ovulation-inducing drugs mainly include the following points.

1. Irregular use of ovulation-inducing drugs can lead to abnormal ovulation in women of childbearing age, and multiple pregnancy itself is a high-risk pregnancy, which can increase the miscarriage rate of pregnant women by 10% and the premature birth rate by 20% compared to normal pregnancy. The fetal mortality rate is as high as 135‰, and it is very easy to cause complications such as premature rupture of membranes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, anemia, and heavy bleeding during delivery. The proportion of intellectual development retardation and deformities in children of multiple births is also very high.

2. Taking ovulation-stimulating drugs privately may cause ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, a large number of ovulations are over-stimulated.

3. While taking ovulation-inducing drugs, you may experience adverse reactions such as lower abdominal pain, breast swelling and pain, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, rash, blurred vision, etc.