Fertility Treatments During The Pandemic

WE WELCOME YOU BACK AT 8.16 MANY OF US ARE GETTING MEDICAL CARE. IT IS LED TO SKYPE DOCTORS VISITS AND MORE PHONE CALLS INSTEAD OF IN PERSON VISITS. SO HOW IS IT IMPACTING COUPLES WHO ARE GOING THROUGH FERTILITY TREATMENTS. WHAT A CHALLENGE FOX TWO’S MOLLY ROSE JOINS US FOR THIS STEEL MOM SEGMENT MOLLY RANDY BACK IN THE SPRING WHEN THE PANDEMIC FIRST HIT MANY COUPLES WERE FORCED TO ACTUALLY JUST PUT A PAUSE ON FERTILITY TREATMENTS, BUT THANKFULLY, SAFETY PROTOCOLS ARE NOW IN PLACE SO MANY FAMILIES CAN CONTINUE THAT JOURNEY AND THIS MORNING WE’RE JOINED BY DOCTOR JULIE RAE WITH BILES FERTILITY INSTITUTE IN ST. LOUIS GOOD MORNING DOCTOR THANKS FOR BEING WITH US. I’M ALI THANKS SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME THIS MONEY SO YOU KNOW SAFETY IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT NOW TELL US HOW OUR CLINICS MAKING CHANGES TO ALLOW COUPLES TO BE SAFE AND TO CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD IN THIS PROCESS. SO INTO FIRST HIT AND WE DIDN’T KNOW A LOT BACK IN MARCH AND APRIL. THE ANSWER THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE WHICH IS OUR GOVERNING BODY OF FERTILITY WHICH WE ARE HURT HAD COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS AND ASKING US FERTILITY CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TO HEART AND EARLY TREATMENT FOR A LITTLE BIT OF TIME UNTIL THERE IS MORE DATA KNOWN SO YOU KNOW WE HAVE RESUMED FERTILITY TREATMENT IN A VERY CAUTIOUS AND SO WE’VE ADOPTED MEASURES THAT MITIGATE RISK SUCH AS MASS CLEARY IN THE HAVING PATIENTS MAKING THEIR CARS MAKING SURE THAT THERE AREN’T A LOT OF A LOT OF PATIENTS IN THE WAITING ROOM AT ONE TIME. SO WE’VE DEFINITELY ADOPTED THESE TO ENSURE THAT OUR STAFF AND OUR PATIENTS ARE SAFE. SO IMPORTANT AND I’M SURE THAT HALTING THIS PROCEDURE WAS VERY EMOTIONAL AND UPSETTING TO A LOT OF PATIENTS TALK ABOUT FOR A LOT OF COUPLES. I MEAN JUST WAITING AND HALTING THIS REALLY ISN’T AN OPTION WASTING TIME.

EXACTLY SO I THINK YOU MAKE A REALLY GOOD POINT WHEN FIRST GOT NEWS BACK IN MARCH AND APRIL THAT WE NEEDED TO HALT FOR SOME TIME IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT FOR PATIENTS AS YOU KNOW THE FERTILITY JOURNEY IN AND OF ITSELF ISN’T REALLY A DIFFICULT PROCESS THAT REQUIRES PATIENCE AND RESILIENCE AND ON THE PART OF OUR PATIENTS AND A LOT OF THESE STATIONS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR MANY MANY YEARS TO THE MANY SO JUST TO STOP FOR A LITTLE BIT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT. I THINK MANY OF OUR PATIENTS ARE REALLY HAPPY THAT NOW WE HAVE RESUME FERTILITY TREATMENT AGAIN IN A VERY SAFE BUT YOU KNOW I THINK ANOTHER REALLY IMPORTANT POINT TO CONSIDER HERE IS THAT ALTHOUGH FERTILITY TREATMENT BY BY SOME ARE CAN BE CONSIDERED THIS IS ACTUALLY A MEDICAL CONDITION THAT AFFECTS A LOT OF PATIENTS FOR SOME WAITING IS NOT AN OPTION. AND QUICKLY HERE AS WE WRAP UP I KNOW YOU HAD SOME TIPS ON THINGS WOMEN CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO STRENGTHEN THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM IF THEY ARE WORKING TO GET PREGNANT DURING THIS SCARY TIME OF THE PANDEMIC WHAT ARE THOSE TIPS. YEAH, I THINK THAT THE TIPS ARE THE SAME AS THE TIPS THAT WE ALWAYS GIVE OUR PATIENTS FAR AS THEY EMBARK ON THEIR FERTILITY JOURNEY. WE YOU KNOW RECOMMEND STAY ACTIVE. SO I KNOW THE WINTER MONTHS ARE GOING TO GET COLD BUT TRYING YOU KNOW INCLUDE SOME EXERCISE REGIMEN IN YOUR SCHEDULE, I KNOW IT’S DIFFICULT TO GET OUT TO THE BUT WHETHER THAT’S A LITTLE BIT OF INCREASING SORT OF HEALTHY FOODS YOU KNOW DECREASED PROCESSED FOODS, I KNOW IT’S REALLY HARD AS APPROACH THE HOLIDAYS. MAYBE SOME FERTILITY VITAMINS AS WELL SO GREAT IS THAT BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM VITAMIN C ZINC TAKING YOU KNOW VITAMINS THAT ARE HIGH IN ANTIOXIDANTS AS WELL. DOCTOR JULIE REED, THANK YOU SO MUCH GREAT INFORMATION THIS MORNING. I’M SURE SOME OF YOU AT HOME MIGHT STILL HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS YOU CAN HOP THE BIOS INSTITUTE FACEBOOK PAGE FOR A FACEBOOK LIVE OUR DOCTOR RHEE WILL BE ANSWERING MORE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WE HAVE A LINK ON

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Source: FOX 2 St. Louis