The president of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria (AMSN) and a reproductive endocrinologist, Professor Oladapo Ashiru, have reaffirmed that people, especially women, who conduct regularly barefoot cars or eat fish and other fish with a great presence of mercury in them. They regularly run the high risk of facing the problem of fertility when you are ready to conceive and have your own babies.
He also said that bad eating habits, stress, excessive use of lipsticks and exposure to chemical substances, such as spills of oils, pesticides and insecticides, as well as smoking can also cause infertility both in men and women. Hotels in Lagos while delivered the 30th anniversary conference of the Medical Art Center, which he founded 30 years ago.
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Professor Ashiru's team was a pioneer in the in vitro fertilization treatment method (IVF) in Sub -Sahara Africa, and is the president of the Africa Reproductive Care Society and the first black person worldwide to be elected as general secretary of The International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS), a non -state fertility organization.
According to him, many people participate in some daily activities that are unknown to them are able to cause infertility for them.
Giving examples, he said: “Some women with high heel shoes take off their shoes and drive barefoot because they find the easiest practice and if they do it regularly for a long time, they are pronounced to infertility.”
He said that research and medical exams had shown that many patients with IVF have experienced spontaneous abortions after passing through the IVF treatment because they had antimony in them that affected their embryo and the antimony is toxic and enter the human body through the Upper accelerator lining and brake pedal.
“Therefore, it is until the antimony of such patients is eliminated that can take place pregnant or maintain a pregnancy.
“The same goes for the mercury that is present in large fish and broth fish; Fumigation, oil spills, the use of lipstick and pesticides are also harmful to health to the extent that they can lead to infertility.
“Even fumigation and pesticides can affect three generations in the sense that it can affect a woman, their pregnancy and the child to be born.
“Similarly, women also use many lipstick, unknown to them that carry many toxins, especially if they are made at a low price. Oil spills are also toxins for sperm and eggs, cause spontaneous abortion or infertility. “
Ashiru said that infertility can be traced for both men and women and, therefore, reported that people, especially those who are in their reproductive and younger ages, must eliminate activities that can cause damage to their reproductive systems or shorten their lives.
Speaking about the topic of the conference, “more joy for families through assisted reproductive technology,” Ashiru revealed that no less than 2,500 babies are born in Nigeria annually through art, especially IVF.
He explained that despite the fact that the assisted treatment may not work for all couples, who want to have their own biological children due to aforementioned conditions, including old age, the system has worked for so many couples with fertility challenges in the country.
He said that only the Medical Art Center has managed cases with more than 3,000 babies born in 30 years of their operations through art, and added that there are up to 170 fertility clinics with only 20 of them duly registered throughout the country.
He pointed out that between 7,000 and 10,000 conception cycles are carried out annually by the registered members of the FIV Clinic in the country and the couples of many other African countries access IVF services in the country, and the development promotes the medical tourism of Nigeria.
By put the success rate of the treatment of global infertility to 40 percent, he said that the Medical Art Center has registered more than that figure of all cases that are handled from the beginning and that the evolution of the new technology certainly The figure will increase significantly both globally and in the center before the next decade.
He emphasized that it would be better if education in a reproductive system like this is part of the students' curriculum even from the level of primary school in Africa. In his comments separated in the event, Professor Emeritus Osato Giwa-Osagie, who associated with Professor Ashiru at the Teaching Hospital of the University of Lagos (Luth) Idi-Araba, 45 years ago, to deliver the first baby to Through the treatment of IVF in Western Africa, as well as Dr. Sonny Kuku, co -founder of the hospitals of Eko and others, exalted Ashiru's virtues in the field of Medicine and Technology and Technology and Important Assisted Reproductive Education.
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They said that Ashiru is not only passionate about the field of reproductive endocrinology through which he had produced and advised many IVF doctors, but also for lifting Nigeria's health sector in general at a greater height. Mart, urging him not to rest on his oars.
The highest point of the event was the presentation of awards to some of the center staff, including the medical director, Dr. Mojisola Aderommu, for his strong dedication and commitment to the vision of the center.