sw11bloke said:Something for you to think about is: as a diabetic male, we have a higher rate of passing on diabetes to the child - More so than a diabetic woman.
sw11bloke said:Diabetes in Men
Men too can experience infertility issues due to high glucose levels. For some retrograde ejaculation, where semen backs up into the bladder, making it impossible to get to the woman’s reproductive organs, becomes a problem, as does erectile dysfunction caused by both the diabetes itself as well as medications which may be used to control it.
Still, there is one, more dangerous reproductive side effect to diabetes in men: DNA damage. According to research released y Dr. Ishola Agbaje of the Reproductive Research Group at Queen’s University in Belfast, diabetes can and does cause serious DNA damage to sperm which can inhibit a pregnancy, live birth and even healthy, normal fetus. Among the results of the study include that:
•Diabetic men have much lower semen levels (just 2.6 compared to 3.3 ml in their non-diabetic counterparts).
•The nuclear DNA in diabetic man’s sperm cells was more (52 per cent versus 32 per cent).
•There were more deletions in the mitochondrial DNA of diabetic men’s sperm cells than those of the non-diabetic men.
•The mitochondrial DNA deletions in the diabetic men’s sperm cells ranged from 3 to 6 and averaged 4, while for the non-diabetic men it ranged from 1 to 4 and averaged 3.
What does all this mean? Simply put, a diabetic man who does not control his glucose levels has less of a chance of impregnating his partner and when he does the risk of miscarriage and deformities are much higher.
The following article comes from a Harvard Medical study:
■The risk for a child of a parent with type 1 diabetes is lower if it is the mother — rather than the father — who has diabetes. "If the father has it, the risk is about 1 in 10 (10 percent) that his child will develop type 1 diabetes — the same as the risk to a sibling of an affected child," Dr. Warram says. On the other hand, if the mother has type 1 diabetes and is age 25 or younger when the child is born, the risk is reduced to 1 in 25 (4 percent) and if the mother is over age 25, the risk drops to 1 in 100 — virtually the same as the average American.
■If one of the parents developed type 1 diabetes before age 11, their child's risk of developing type 1 diabetes is somewhat higher than these figures and lower if the parent was diagnosed after their 11th birthday.
http://www.joslin.org/info/genetics_and_diabetes.html
sw11bloke said:I understand Adam. I found it hard to deal with my sugar levels in uni too.
If you can then do make the effort as it will definately make a difference.
You may want to think of a back up plan. Perhaps look into freezing sperm now and if ever in the future you had issues, You could go down the IVF route. Perhaps in the future they would be able to remove the diabetic gene from your sperm.
blink said:sw11bloke said:Something for you to think about is: as a diabetic male, we have a higher rate of passing on diabetes to the child - More so than a diabetic woman.
is this statement true? i have a 3 year old daughter and when my partner was pregnant i was told that there is no medical evidence to prove that there is a higher chance of her becoming diabetic as there would be if i wasnt diabetic. i am just going by what i was told by a diabetic doctor up here(wouldnt be the first time they have got there information wrongroblem: ) i was 27, had been diabetic for 11 years at that time, when my girlfriend became pregnant and my control was rubbish for a good chunk of that time(not something i am proud of).
as i say this is just goin by what i have been told so i could be totally wrong :think:
Hello, I'm just posting here because I am very curious about this question, I'm 19 years old and have had type 1 for about 8 years now, and this question has popped up into my mind a few times, but does having diabetes actually affect the chances of having children when your older. I don't plan on having children for a while that's why I'm curious, the longer I wait the less chance of having children? I would love to have children when I'm older that's why I've been thinking about this.
Thank you you reading
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