Kissing can infect the virus causing infertility?

Discovering this virus will most likely open up hope for treating many infertile women.

Alcohol, caffeine and an unreasonable diet can lead to impaired fertility, but no one thinks that infertility can be related to lip-kissing.

Scientists have recently discovered an inexplicable link to infertility and a lesser-known virus that they believe is transmitted by kissing.

This finding will most likely open up hope for infertile women who have not been diagnosed.

The team at the University of Ferrara, Italy examined the uterus of some unidentified infertile women.

Results showed that up to 43% of them were infected with HHV-6A , a human herpes virus.

Nobody thinks infertility can be related to lip-kissing.

This virus has not been found in people with normal fertility.

An estimated 6% of women aged 15-44 have infertility. Among them, about one-fourth of cases are not explained clearly, causing many women to seek costly treatments like IVF without knowing whether they are effective or not.

Published in PloS One, the study describes that women with HHV-6A have abnormally high levels of cytokines.Cytokines are a protein that catalyzes the reaction between cells to support the development of eggs and fetuses.

Scientists also found higher levels of hormone estradiol in infertile people than normal and could cause infection with HHV-6A virus.

HHV-6A virus is usually not found in blood or saliva so scientists have not yet confirmed where its highest concentration is. However, this virus replicates itself in the salivary glands; Previous studies have also shown that HHV-6A is most likely to be transmitted by kissing.

12-day-old fetus.

Herpes viruses have been found in men with infertility, but there has never been a precedent that a virus has been confirmed to be related to female infertility.

Therefore, this is really an interesting finding and has the ability to open treatment solutions for infertile women, who have often been used by many private health facilities and regretted. urging participation in expensive but unproven treatment programs.

The research team is still actively working to confirm the information found in the experimental group and see if an antiviral treatment can help these women.