Many times, infertility is not simply a disease that makes a family unable to conceive, but rather a disease that prevents everyone from having children. Many infectious sexually transmitted diseases can achieve this goal. After learning that they are suffering from these diseases, many friends often dare not continue the natural reproductive process, and over time, it can even lead to the breakdown of the entire family. But there is such a technology that can remove impurities from semen, which is the legendary semen washing technique. Can this semen washing technique ensure that future generations are not infected with diseases? How much does it cost to do a sperm washing surgery?

1、 Principles of Semen Washing Technique

'Washing sperm' is a popular term for optimizing sperm processing techniques. When HIV carriers are men, sperm washing techniques are needed. The principle is to inject semen into a test tube and then mix it with a penetrating agent. After high-speed rotation through a centrifuge, the mixture can separate sperm and eggs from other substances such as white blood cells and semen. However, the virus of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and other virus carriers exists in seminal plasma or blood, but the sperm and eggs are healthy. Sperm washing can remove as many unnecessary or even harmful sperm components as possible, including seminal plasma, dead sperm, inflammatory cells, anti sperm antibodies, and bacteria. Utilize healthy sperm and eggs to form fertilized eggs, and then use PGD/PGS screening technology to test the blastocysts cultured from fertilized eggs. Under the protection of dual screening, ensure the transfer of healthy embryos into the uterus.

2、 Can semen washing ensure that offspring are not infected?

Sperm washing is a new technology invented by Professor Augustus of the University of Milan in Italy. Mainly used for in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination in assisted reproductive technology, sperm are selected through certain procedures. It can separate sperm and eggs from other substances such as white blood cells and semen, and a large number of viruses happen to exist in the middle of semen. The virus of AIDS, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, syphilis and other virus carriers exists in seminal plasma or blood, but sperm and eggs are healthy. This technology can indeed extract healthy sperm to ensure that the fetus will not be infected with HIV. However, there are not many countries and hospitals that can fully master this technology. At present, only some reproductive hospitals have developed very mature and can effectively separate seminal plasma and sperm through advanced technologies such as semen and physiological fluid mixing upstream method, sperm albumin separation, percoll reagent, etc., ensuring that sperm is 100% clean.

3、 How much does semen washing surgery cost?

In order to reduce sperm deformity rate, improve sperm vitality, and ensure sperm quality, it is necessary to wash sperm, with a cost of around 8000 to 10000 yuan. The most important role of semen washing is to remove factors that are not conducive to fertilization in semen, such as white blood cell count, bacteria, debris, and anti sperm antibodies, improving sperm liquefaction and in vitro capacitation of male sperm. For example, before the egg and sperm combine, it is necessary to dress and organize. Only by removing these interferences from semen can sperm better combine with the egg to form a fertilized egg.

Overall, the development of semen washing technology is not very fast, and the technical requirements are also high. Generally, medical institutions do not have the conditions to use this technology. Moreover, it is not certain that semen washing surgery aims to ensure 100% isolation of harmful pathogens. The best method is to do blocking and in vitro fertilization in hospitals. There are many channels in China, and the technology is also more mature!