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CERVICAL
MUCUS
Cervical
mucus is a jelly like substance produced by tiny glands in the cervix
called cervical crypts. It has a protective function and may prevent
bacteria from getting into the uterine cavity. The mucus changes,
predictable and cyclically during the menstrual cycle. During the
first half of the cycle, before ovulation, when the estrogenic hormones
are produced by the cervical glands becomes watery, copious, clear
& stretchy. Sperm can penetrate this watery mucus easily, and
when intercourse takes place, sperm swim through the mucus rapidly
into the uterus. After ovulation, the quality of the mucus changes
because the corpus luteum of the ovary now starts to make the hormone
progesterone.
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Mucus
produced under the influence of progesterone is thicker, sticker &
its quantity is reduced. Sperm cannot swim through this mucus and it forms
a barrier to sperm entry into the uterine cavity. Even if intercourse
occurs at the time when the cervical mucus is at its most favorable, one
about in every 2000 sperm enters the mucus. The rest of the sperm remain
in the vagina, where they die quickly, because of the acidic pH of the
vaginal medium. Those sperm that have entered the mucus can survive there
for long periods; certainly for several days after intercourse. Once in
the cervical mucus, the sperm steadily swim upwards from it into the uterus
over a period of 48 to 72 hours. Thus the cervical mucus acts as a sperm
reservoir, to be backed on if intercourse does not take place at ovulation.
This is why there is no need to have sex everyday in order to conceive!
The cervical mucus also acts as a filter and allows only the best sperm
to swim through it into the uterus and up towards the egg present in the
fallopian tube.
In some women, the cervical mucus may prevent the sperm from moving freely
into the uterus. Such a barrier may be because of the following reasons:
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There is not enough too thick & sticky
> The
mucus is not computable with the husband
> The
mucus is not compatible with the husbands sperm
Unani herbal
remedies rectify these problems successfully.
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