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Scientists have proved the relationship of infertility and epilepsy

Male infertility is often diagnosed as an independent disease, but also has its own international classification. However, most often the impaired fertility is a symptom of that disease. Epilepsy is a common cause of infertility in men. With epilepsy suffer more than 3% of the earth's population and the majority of patients were men. Disorders in the brain associated with epileptic disorders, often a cause of fertility.

As a result of research conducted by scientists, it was revealed that 67% of men married with the diagnosis of epilepsy, have unprotected contact with my wife for over a year and no pregnancy. Most often, the reduced fertility observed in men suffering from epilepsy or childhood or adolescence. This is due to the long disorders of the neuroendocrine activities. Treatment of patients in such cases is through an aggressive therapy against convulsions maintained for a long time. Fertility of patients who received epilepsy after injury and in other circumstances does not differ from the General population.