Sentences with phrase «scrotal temperature»

Sippell concluded: «A prolonged increase in scrotal temperature in early childhood may have an important role in subsequent testicular health and function, with implications for male fertility.»

Dr. Sharara also recommends optimizing male fertility by avoiding these situations that can raise scrotal temperatures.

In a small study at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, fertility researchers found that men who sat with working laptops on their laps for an hour had an average increase in scrotal temperature of about 5 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 2.7 degrees Celsius.

According to some studies, wearing briefs appears to raise the temperature of the scrotum, and high scrotal temperatures have been proven to decrease the quality of a man's sperm.

Scrotal temperatures do not differ among young boys wearing disposable or reusable diapers, Skin Research and Technology, Volume 8, Issue 4, pages 260 — 270, November 2002).

Surely that can't be good for scrotal temperatures.

The only situation in which scrotal temperatures were found to be lower is when the cloth diaper is used alone without a protective cover but this is not representative of how these products are actually used» (Grove GL, Grove MJ, Bates NT, Wagman LM, Leyden JJ (2002).

Scientists say that the portable computers, when seated on a lap for even short periods of time, can raise scrotal temperatures and cause sperm production to plummet.

A 2000 German study concluded that boys who wear disposable diapers maintain a higher scrotal temperature than boys wearing cloth diapers, which may pose fertility issues later in life.

Research suggests that an increase in scrotal temperature may lower sperm production and possibly affect the ability of the sperm to fertilize an egg.

In May 2000, the Archives of Disease in Childhood published research showing that scrotal temperature is increased in boys wearing disposable diapers, and that prolonged use of disposable diapers will blunt or completely abolish the physiological testicular cooling mechanism important for normal spermatogenesis.

Disposable diapers have shown to increase his scrotal temperature, interfering with the necessary testicular cooling system that is very important for normal spermatogenesis.

Scrotal temperatures were the same as rectal temperatures when cotton diapers were worn, but far higher when disposable diapers were worn.

Dr. Wolfgang Sippell, professor of pediatrics at the University of Kiel, monitored the scrotal temperature of 48 healthy boys, from birth up to 4 years old, using a tiny thermal probe.

In addition, it has been found that the temperature inside a disposable diaper will raise the scrotal temperature in boys to a level that is harmful to their future fertility.

Although the researchers didn't check whether the temperature increase actually affected the men's sperm production, previous studies have shown that even an increase of 1 degree Celsius in scrotal temperature can affect the production of healthy sperm.