Requirements for sperm donation

To be a donor, a series of conditions that tend to be quite strict must be met, so the number of candidates discarded is very high. It is estimated that only one in ten donors is selected, which means that, although this data varies depending on the clinic, about 90% of men are rejected to be donors.

Below you have an index with all the points that we will discuss in this article.

Index

Characteristics of the donor

The most important and indispensable requirement is to have good health: you should not suffer from any disease. Urine tests are performed and blood is drawn to perform a complete analysis and, in addition to checking that there is no sexually transmitted disease (STD), a karyotype will also be performed. By means of this last test, it is looked for if there is a chromosomal alteration. It is necessary that no member of the family suffer from a hereditary disease or psychiatric disorders.

Requirements to donate semen

The donor is a young person, indispensable to be of legal age, although legally the age limit to donate semen is 50 years, the reproduction clinics have reached an agreement, and only accept donors between 18 and 35 years.

It is necessary that the donor has a number of children under 6, the law of assisted reproduction has put this number as a limit of children that can be obtained from the semen of a donor, so that there are no problems of consanguinity and in the same population. many children of the same person who, by chance, maintain relationships, in this way they avoid genetic and ethical problems.



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