Accompanied by chronic anovulation, a consultant gynecologist/obstetrician, Dr. Abayomi Ajayi said PCOS has that early diagnosis and treatment alongside weight loss may lower the risk of long-term complications.
“For a woman with such condition to be able make babies, you have to check her and because she doesn’t ovulate, the medical professional will make her ovulate, using birth control pills to balance estrogen and testosterone levels before beginning fertility treatment among others. There may be fertility medications to jump-start the ovaries to send out more eggs.
“Most women with PCOS are overweight or obese, though a small percentage have a normal body weight. Left untreated, high levels of androgens, regardless of whether a woman has PCOS or not, are associated with serious health consequences, such as insulin resistance and diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease,” he said.
While lamenting the dependency of Nigerian youths on drugs to achieve and sustain erection, he said, that all manner of drugs and concoctions being consumed by men to gain and sustain erection, is detrimental to their health and affect fertility.