EP208: Turn worms in the sack into the dragons in the womb | PUTTING DR G ON THE SPOT
Consultant urologist Dr George Lee Eng Geap, or a.k.a Dr G, shows the way of enhancing one’s sperm quality to be fertile to realise the Year of the Dragon to have a “dragon baby”.
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00:00 As we come into once every 12 years, dragon year, many people are gearing up to have dragon baby.
00:08 When somebody's sperm actually is not good up to the mark, then we need to do something about it.
00:15 For the first installation, we're going to talk about how to fix oligo-asteno-teratospermia with an operation.
00:25 So what exactly is OAT? OAT stands for oligo-asteno-teratospermia.
00:38 Oligo means not enough sperms, if you actually have less than 15 million per mil.
00:44 Asteno means that they're not really moving so fast, so less than 40% of them are motile.
00:51 And terato meaning that less than 4% of them are actually of morphology, which has head, neck and tail.
00:58 So the commonest reason why people have this and many men don't really know about it is a condition called varicoseal.
01:06 You can imagine that the varicose vein of your legs actually is happening in your scrotum.
01:11 And because of that dilated vessels, it heat up the actual testicular temperature.
01:17 And because of that, you have a poorer quality of sperm count.
01:22 So how do you rectify that? In fact, varicoseal actually comes in various degree of severity.
01:30 Grade 0 actually is not detectable and in grade 1, 2 and 3 are increasingly more severe.
01:38 Obviously, the most severe one, if you correct it, then you can see a significant improvement in the sperm quality.
01:46 So therefore, there are many ways that you can correct varicoseal.
01:50 Sometimes we can directly go to the scrotum and ligate the vessels. That is called varicoseal ligation.
01:58 Other conditions such as embolization, we use some cloths and block off the vessel so that that will not cause dilation of the vessels.
02:08 Or sometimes we may even do laparoscopic surgery.
02:11 The unfortunate thing is that most of these procedures can actually recur.
02:17 And then for some men, after they have the baby, when they want to have a second baby, these sort of problems will recur.
02:24 So we actually have done quite a lot of scientific review.
02:30 We know that men who live more healthy, more exercise, more sleep, more hydration, actually have better sperm quality anyway.
02:39 So with additional operation, they might actually improve it and might get you on track to get that dragon baby.
02:47 For the following week, we are actually going to talk about what lifestyle changes you should have.
02:54 So some of you may have questions about certain occupation, certain lifestyles, such as jogging, cycling and also going to sauna.
03:03 If you're worrying about certain lifestyle is putting your sperm at risk, then you stay tuned for next week's Putting Dr G on the Spot.
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