What are the 5 major side effects of artificial insemination?

In life, many families cannot get pregnant naturally due to various reasons. The emergence of artificial insemination has given hope to many infertile families and allowed many families to have babies. In fact, although artificial insemination technology is very advanced, it is not as simple as everyone imagines. There are still many disadvantages, and patients need to be mentally prepared. What are the five major side effects of artificial insemination?

What are the disadvantages of artificial insemination?

1. Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: Since ovulation induction treatment is required before artificial insemination, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome may occur.

2. Abnormal pregnancy outcomes may occur: the incidence of multiple pregnancies with artificial insemination can reach 20%, the incidence of ectopic pregnancy is about 2% to 8%, and the rate of spontaneous abortion is 20% to 30%.

3. Pelvic infection may occur: Since a thin tube is used to inject optimized semen into the uterus, the chance of uterine and fallopian tube infection will increase. Bacteria can be introduced during manipulation, and bacterial contamination may also occur when handling semen.

4. Bleeding and injury: It is mostly caused by difficult insertion of the uterine cavity or rough operation. Therefore, first choose an insemination tube with appropriate hardness and softness. The operator should be gentle, steady and accurate to avoid damaging the cervical canal and endometrium and causing bleeding, so as not to affect the insemination effect.

5. Lower abdominal pain: During artificial insemination with fresh semen between couples, injecting semen too quickly and in excess, especially injecting semen into the cervix, can induce spasmodic pain in the lower abdomen.

6. The success rate of artificial insemination is not very high. Only 40% of mothers can successfully become pregnant, and the proportion of those who can give birth to a child is only between 10% and 15%.

In addition, who is the child's real father? The law stipulates that the wife's husband is the child's father, but the sperm donor is the child's genetic father. This is a serious psychological test for the wife and husband who are going to undergo artificial insemination. This is also a disadvantage of artificial insemination. Careful consideration must be made before deciding whether artificial insemination is necessary.

What are the complications of artificial insemination?

1. The infection is mainly related to the operator's weak sense of sterility and the fact that there is no way to keep semen absolutely sterile. There have been reports of adnexitis and pelvic inflammatory disease caused by artificial insemination. The use of appropriate antibiotics after artificial insemination has a certain preventive effect.

2. Bleeding and injury. It is mainly related to improper operating methods, inappropriate equipment used (too simple) and rough and unskilled operation.

3. Endometriosis is rare, but is mostly caused by excessive injection of semen into the uterine cavity too quickly and with too high pressure.

4. Pain in the lower abdomen. The pain is mostly caused by the rapid injection of semen and excessive pressure, which leads to uterine spasmodic contractions. If intrauterine insemination is performed, if too much semen is injected, the semen can flow into the abdominal cavity through the fallopian tube and cause irritating lower abdominal pain.

5. Potential medical ethics and genetic risks: In AID, when one sperm donor's semen is used to fertilize two or more women, the children born to these women will be half-siblings in terms of blood relationship. Due to the confidentiality of A1D, these half-offspring cannot and will not know each other. If they happen to get married when they grow up, it will result in a blood marriage, which may cause genetic harm to their offspring. Although such coincidences rarely occur.