Listening to 'TikTok doctor' taking sexual enhancement pills for 8 years, couple lost the chance to become parents

Doctor Ha Ngoc Manh consults a patient - Photo: BVCC

Doctor Ha Ngoc Manh, deputy director of the Vietnam - Belgium Hospital for Andrology and Infertility, shared about the case of a man who shared that nearly 10 years ago, he and his wife went to Bach Mai Hospital for examination and were diagnosed with azoospermia, with a very low chance of having children naturally.

Doctors advised the couple on assisted reproductive techniques but they refused. They then decided to seek out remedies advertised online.

While surfing TikTok, the husband came across an "online doctor" who recommended male enhancement pills to help improve sperm quality. Trusting the advertisement, he ordered the pills and continued taking them for 8 years, hoping that one day he would receive good news.

However, after 9 years of not having children, the couple decided to go to the hospital for a check-up. The results showed that the husband still had azoospermia, while the wife was 43 years old, and due to her advanced age, had severe ovarian failure, with almost no good quality eggs left to perform in vitro fertilization.

"Taking drugs of unknown origin for many years has not brought any results in treating infertility. On the contrary, it causes couples to miss the 'golden time' for treatment, leading to the current situation where it is increasingly difficult to have children," Dr. Manh commented.

According to Dr. Manh, more and more people are claiming to be "medical experts" on social networks, advertising functional foods or treatments that have no scientific basis.

Flowery promises like "overnight cure" or "miraculous results" easily attract viewers, but have serious health consequences, causing loss of timely treatment opportunities.

Many gullible patients arbitrarily use products of unknown origin, forgetting that they are trading their health and precious time for effective treatment.

To avoid these consequences, doctors recommend that patients seek information from reputable sources and consult a specialist before using any medication.

In addition, modern infertility treatment techniques such as sperm extraction from the epididymis or testicles, combined with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), have brought the opportunity to become fathers to many azoospermic patients.

In particular, the micro-TESE technique can find sperm in the vas deferens, increasing the chance of fatherhood for men with azoospermia. In addition, doctors also recommend that men pay attention to checking their reproductive health as soon as there are abnormal signs such as pain in the genital area, testicular atrophy... to promptly intervene and preserve fertility in the future.

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