The trouble conceiving children should be consulted with a medical specialist. médica. After a year or year and a half having sex without contraceptive protection, it is felt that it's time to seek medical help.

Identifying the problem in the woman or man, and finding solution requires undergo various tests and sometimes make some kind of treatment.

Tests for women

·  Ultrasonography: it is an X-ray technique that allows you to view the internal organs of the female reproductive tract. Through this medium can be detected anomalies in the position or shape of the uterus and ovaries, the presence of cysts and other disorders.

·  Analysis hormone: to determine whether or not the normal levels of certain hormones such as progesterone.

·  Laparoscopy: a flexible tube with a tiny camera to a monitor transmitting images of internal organs. We enter through a small incision in the abdomen. Allows detect diseases such as endometriosis. Normally requires general anesthesia.

·  Histerosalpingografía involves the use of X-ray and a substance contrastive. Detects including obstruction of the fallopian tubes and anomalies within the uterus.

·  Endometrial biopsy involves removing a sample of the tissue lining the inside of the uterus for subsequent analysis. It usually performed a few days after ovulation for, among other things, measure the levels of progesterone.

·  Analysis of cervical mucus and test-postcoital: in the cervix mucus is produced a substance that is needed that allows the passage of sperm. An analysis is usually done within a few hours of sexual relations in the days leading up to ovulation and appreciate the presence of antibodies espermáticos.

·  Histeroscopia: consists of introducing a tube with a lens inside the uterus to obtain direct images of the inside of the uterine cavity.

Treatment

·  Pharmacotherapy: it is prescribed to the man or woman who comes as the problem.

·  Artificial insemination involves the introduction of sperm into the ovary previously treated. It is done in the days leading up to ovulation.

·  In vitro fertilization: fertilization of the egg and sperm takes place outside of the woman's body. Some of the fertilized eggs are inserted in the uterus, the other often frozen for future treatment.

·  Sperm Injection: is similar to in vitro fertilization, but a single sperm is injected into each egg. The advantage is that you do not need large amounts of semen and that it can be obtained through testicular biopsy.

·  Donation of ova or sperm involves using ova or sperm of another person.