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Through 70 informational modules located in health units and other strategic points, the Mexican Central Alcoholics Anonymous began Monday with the activities of the National Week XVI Sharing Efforts, which aims to bring information to people who have friends or relatives problems with their drinking.

For a year’s theme “A shared responsibility, necessary response” has, the initiative to raise awareness among the public about the problem involving alcoholism and AA alternatives offered through self-help centers.

To do this from 17 to 23 January, the Ministry of Health of Ithacan open the doors of its health centers and hospitals to AA members modules installed at their place in bigger audiences. The initiative involved the whole health sector, so there will be clinical modules IMSS and ISSSTE, as well as bus stations and airports.

The National Week “effort sharing” was established following the agreement signed in 1995, ratified in 2001 between the Ministry of Health and the Mexican Central Services of Alcoholics Anonymous AC (CMSGAA) to join efforts to prevent alcohol abuse and help people who already suffer from this disease.

There is no doubt that alcohol adversely affects male fertility. The pertinent question is: How much alcohol is too much to threaten the fertility and the damage it causes too much alcohol fertility? So how much is too much? Studies have shown that drinking more than four ounces of alcohol a day is bad for the reproductive system. For example, a bottle of beer or a glass of wine contains about half an ounce of alcohol.

Alcohol concentration depends largely on the type of beverage consumed, but drinking beer as a guide, eight bottles of beer a day give you 4 ounces of alcohol content. This is definitely going to hurt your fertility. Here is how alcohol actually affects male fertility:

1. Alcoholism (alcohol abuse) increases the level of estrogen in men. This in turn interferes with your hormones and sperm development. Why? Because alcohol is a toxin that tends to kill sperm in men cell generation. Worse yet, chronic alcoholism can cause testicular atrophy, gynecomastia and the lack of sexual interest.

2. Excessive alcohol consumption causes a disruption in gonads that produce changes in the structure of the testes and decreased serum T. A drop in the level of T is the serum may cause male infertility.

3. The toxicity of excessive consumption of alcohol can reduce sperm density or sperm. Normally, the volume of a single ejaculate is 3 ml (sometimes reaching six per ml ejaculate) with 120 million sperm per ml. However, alcohol can cause a dramatic reduction in these figures. In addition, alcohol can cause abnormalities in sperm size, shape and tail of the sperm. Sperm motility may also be adversely affected.

4. Excess alcohol alters the regular oval head and a tail line of healthy sperm cell. This change in the shape of the sperm can seriously compromise the viability of sperm. Furthermore, chronic alcoholism damages the sperm morphology often has irreversible effects. (Note: Drinking too much alcohol can also cause impotence and liver damage) When in doubt, does a semen analysis test to determine fertility status? Sperm normally takes about three months to develop.

Therefore, if you want to have their sperm tested, he must abstain from sexual intercourse during this period to obtain a clear and reliable reading on the health and status of sperm produced. There always has to see an urologist if you want to do semen analysis. You can save money by using a technician laboratory place.

There are confidential reports about teens and consumption of illicit drugs that are used by physicians and public health experts to measure the magnitude of the problem and to help troubled teens. However, it turns out that teenagers FIB big on anonymous surveys, and so do their parents.

The researchers asked 432 African American adolescents and their parents to participate in an anonymous survey about their use of cocaine, opiates and marijuana, and said it would also be drug-tested. Of the 211 adolescents whose hair has tried cocaine, two said they used it, while 69 or 34 percent, tested positive, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. Of the 244 parents tested, 15 said they had used cocaine, while 69 or 28 percent, tested positive.

The parents surveyed were bad at guessing if your son was using alcohol or drugs. For example, 9.6 percent of parents said their teenage son drank alcohol, while 25 percent of teens said they did. With marijuana, 9.5 percent of parents said their teen smoking the drug, while 17 percent of teens said they did.

This is not the first study finds that parents have no idea about teen drug and alcohol consumption. That may be because parents tend to shrug off drugs and alcohol as a normal teenage behavior, according to a study published last January in the journal Pediatrics. However, forgetfulness has a price. Early increases alcohol abuse and a child’s risk of addiction and health in adulthood, and adolescent suicide.