Before you opt for IVF, consider this 100-year-old technique
Infertile couples can now cheer-up! Theyhave anewly discovered opportunity to achieve successful pregnancy without the need for IVF, all thanks to new research towards optimizing a 100-year-old medical technique.
According to a study undertaken by a team of researchers in the Netherlands and Australia, the lesser known technique ─ in which the woman’s fallopian tubes were flushed with iodized poppy seed oil ─ has been proven to have significant benefits for fertility. The results of the study will be published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The 100-year-old technique
The procedure, known as hysterosalpingography (HSG), is a dye test of the fallopian tubes conducted under X-ray. Until the 1950s both water-based and oil-based solutions have been used, while the HSG procedure was first carried out in 1917.
Over the past century, the chances of pregnancy among infertile women increased after their fallopian tubes had been flushed with either oil or water duringHSG procedure. Until now, people weren’t sure whether the type of solution used was influencing the change in fertility.
“The results have been even more exciting than we could have predicted, helping to confirm that an age-old medical technique still has an important place in modern medicine,” said Professor Ben Mol who have been leading the research team.
Oil-based solution proves to be beneficiary
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