What harm does IVF do to women?
As an assisted reproductive technology, IVF technology aims to help couples who cannot conceive naturally realize their dreams. However, to some extent, IVF has brought some harm to women's physical and mental health. This article will elaborate on the harm of IVF to women from four aspects.
Physiological hazard
In IVF assisted reproductive technology, hormone drugs are usually used to promote egg development and ovulation process. These hormone drugs may cause hormone imbalance in women's bodies, leading to irregular menstruation, breast pain, emotional fluctuations and other uncomfortable symptoms. In addition, the ovum retrieval operation may cause ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, with symptoms including abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes even requiring hospitalization.
Moreover, IVF technology usually requires multiple attempts to succeed, and each attempt requires an egg retrieval operation. Multiple operations will increase the risk of women suffering from endometrial diseases, ovarian damage and other complications.
In addition, the multiple pregnancy rate in IVF pregnancy is high, which means that women may need to bear the physiological load of multiple fetuses at the same time. Multiple pregnancy puts forward higher requirements for women's health and pregnancy monitoring.
Psychological hazard
The failure of IVF and the inability to conceive naturally may bring great psychological trauma to women. In particular, patients who fail to succeed after many attempts will face especially great psychological pressure and depression risk. This kind of continuous mental pressure may lead to female emotional fluctuations, anxiety, insomnia and other psychological problems.
In addition, IVF technology may also pay attention to social and family expectations of women. The inability to conceive naturally may be regarded as a defect of women's body, which will bring women a sense of inferiority and identity problems.
In addition, the treatment process of IVF requires women to insist on using drugs, accept medical examinations and surgical procedures for a long time, which has a certain negative impact on women's life rhythm and mental state.
financial burden
IVF technology is a paid service in many countries and regions, and the price is relatively high. For couples with poor economic conditions, it may be a huge burden to bear the cost of IVF treatment. This will not only bring economic pressure to women, but also may have a negative impact on the family economy.
Medical risks
IVF treatment usually needs to be carried out in special hospitals or clinics. However, not all medical institutions have good facilities and professional medical teams. Some low-level medical institutions may not be able to provide high-quality services, which may increase the medical risks women face during IVF treatment.
To sum up, IVF will bring physical, psychological, economic and medical harm to women. Although IVF technology provides a hope for couples who cannot conceive naturally, women need to fully consider and make rational decisions when choosing IVF treatment.
