Men Are Freezing Their Sperm With Fear Of Infertility After CO.VID-19, Have You Frozen Yours?

Men are panic-buying collection kits in order to freeze their sperm as they fear CO.VID-19 will make them infertile.

Normally, the market of preservable sample collection kits, returning postage, running lab tests on returned cups, as well as the promise to store viable seed is steady. But with the CO.VID-19 pandemic getting serious around the world, the business has been experiencing a shocking growth.

According to Daily Beast, CryoChoice has witnessed a 20% increase in the sales of at-home sperm collection kits over the past weeks. Legacy, another at-home sperm collection startup, has got 10 times the usual number of orders in recent days.

At the same time, other firms have reported steep rises in the number of men collecting their sperm, shipping the samples to clinics, having them cryogenically preserved. They are also buying long-term storage space.

It’s worth noting that one of the first and most primary symptoms of CO.VID-19 is fever, and the change in the body temperature can impact sperm production and their ability to move considering their delicate form.

However, the influence of fever is a short-term disruption, as shown in the following graph. So, there’s not much to worry about fever affecting fertility.

However, last month, as the pandemic was severely attacking Western countries and India, doctors warned that men should have their fertility tested after recovering from the disease. While the link wasn’t proven at the time, researchers from Wuhan, China, explained that testicles may suffer damages from CO.VID-19 too, apart from the lungs and the immune system.

Specifical, SARS-CoV-2 attacks cells through a combination of the ACE2 enzyme and the S protein. And the lungs are not the only organ in the human body to have this enzyme, other organs including thyroid, small intestine, kidney, and the heart have it too, according to the researchers. Especially, men’s testicles have much ACE2 enzyme, meaning it’s highly possible that they can be damaged by the virus.

So there’s a reason to worry. Have you collect and have your sperm preserved yet?

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