Post Date April, 15 2023
Nowadays, people are increasingly enjoying it. During holidays and vacations, men will take their family or friends out for a get-together. The get-together has also been changed from a dinner table to a hot spring bath, which can treat various joint and muscle pain. For women, it can reduce weight and beautify, and hot water can help people quickly sweat and fat, but the precautions for bathing in hot springs cannot be ignored, Especially for men, it can lead to male infertility.
The most important thing for men is that when they first inject hot water into a hot spring, the temperature of the hot spring in the pool will be very high, and men often prefer to sit there and feel particularly comfortable with the hot water. However, as the hot water is injected, the maximum temperature will reach around 40 degrees before stopping injecting hot water, At this time, soaking in hot springs with high temperatures for a long time is detrimental to your health.
In clinical practice, we often encounter patients with male infertility who have been paying attention to exercise, taking regular breaks, not smoking or drinking alcohol, but their sperm quality is not up to standard. These patients often have a common hobby, which is to enjoy bathing in hot springs. Individual patients often take a dip once or twice a week, and sometimes steam a sauna along the way. Little did they know that the sperm carrying the reproductive mission in their bodies could not withstand such a "hot" test.
Sperm is produced in the testis and matures in the epididymis. Testicles are located in the scrotum of the human body, one on the left and one on the right. After puberty, under the control of reproductive endocrine hormones, the testicles begin to continuously produce sperm, at which point men are basically able to reproduce. The scrotum is located outside the body cavity, and its temperature is 2 to 8 degrees Celsius lower than the core temperature of the body. This temperature is conducive to sperm production and maturation.
However, the temperature of hot springs is mostly controlled at 38-42 degrees Celsius, some even higher. Frequent bathing in hot springs can increase the temperature of the local scrotum, affecting testicular function, especially the spermatogenesis process, leading to a decline in fertility.
In addition, living habits such as wearing tight pants, placing a laptop or keyboard on your lap, and sitting for a long time can also increase the temperature of the local scrotum, leading to decreased sperm quality. In clinical practice, both varicocele (a vascular lesion) and decreased fertility or infertility in cryptorchidism are associated with elevated testicular temperature.
