Study advices women with miscarriage history to take aspirin before sex to conceive baby boy

A British research, released in December 2015, recommended couples who want to have a baby to have sex twice within an hour. A new study made by scientists at the Eunice Kennedy Shrive National Institute of Child Health and Human Development tested the theory that women with histories of miscarriage who would take an aspirin before coitus would conceive a male child.

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, had 1,228 women with histories of miscarriages who were given low-dose aspirin they took one hour before sex. Of those who took aspirin, 31 percent conceived a boy, while it was 23 percent for those who took placebo, reports Sunshinecoastdaily.

Researchers explain that in some cases, the body’s immune system sees the embryo as a foreign intruder which triggers an inflammatory response in the body. Because male embryos are deemed more vulnerable to the changes than female embryos, inflammation reduces chances of having a boy.

Although aspirin is commonly used to treat pain and fever, it is also non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. In a few small trials, women undergoing IVF who took aspirin boosted their pregnancy rate. Even after some of the women had given birth to a boy, these mothers taking aspirin had overall lower rate of inflammation in the body in comparison to other study participants.

But Simon Fishel, fertility expert, recommends more research be done despite the interesting result of the research. He points out that the results relate only to women with miscarriage histories and evidence of inflammation. Fishel notes, “It does not have any bearing on sex ratios in normal conceptions, where aspirin cannot increase the chance of having a boy,” quotes Daily Mail.

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