Freezing eggs .. An attempt to postpone the dream of motherhood

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Reem Mehanna sat on her couch in the living room with a white background, and released a video that came out on Facebook users saying, "I made a need for two years, and I decided to tell you ... Since I am not what I do, I froze my eggs."

What does egg freezing mean?
Freezing of eggs is a way to stop the egg's biological clock and increase the chances of reproduction later, maintaining the age and properties of the eggs so that they are not affected by age with their owner.

For many women looking to extend their childbearing years, it has become an increasingly attractive option, but perhaps the Egyptians first heard of it through Reem.

The reasons why unmarried young women resort to freezing their eggs or freezing ovarian tissues until marriage, some of them who face health problems that make them vulnerable to chemotherapy or radiation, or who have damaged ovarian stock due to surgery or accident, or infected with migrating endometriosis, and other things Which may significantly affect - or ultimately - the ovarian stock, and hence the woman's ability to reproduce.

There are other social reasons for women to consider freezing eggs as a solution to delay the age of marriage until the age of 30, and before the age and loss of opportunities for pregnancy over time, for use later after marriage, a situation not prevalent in the Arab societies, or being discreet, and may not favor Many doctors.

Process procedures
With the spread of talk about the freezing of eggs, Dr. Tamer Al-Nahas, director of the center `` Ould and Bent '' for IVF and ICSI, said that the process of freezing eggs for several reasons, and marriage does not put a requirement for them, to pull the eggs away from the hymen of virgins through the abdomen or anus.

The technique is becoming more popular with the chances of an egg recovering after dissolution with cooling at full speed, even if the chances are still uncertain with this property, the egg would be much better if frozen at 30 or 32 years, than normal pregnancy. At the age of 40.

Explain the copper to the island Net process procedures, which may vary depending on the age and stock of the ovary case - to begin research and activate the ovary, for the exit of an appropriate number of vesicles, which is withdrawn the liquid from within the use of a syringe associated with the sonar device, and it is necessary to be in the center of microscopic injection and the case Under anesthesia.

The second stage of the process comes by examining the liquid, searching for mature eggs, to freeze them at extremely low temperatures, using a technique that prevents the formation of flakes of ice may spoil the egg, then stored in containers, for periods of up to 5 years, until marriage, and then freeze The eggs are injected with sperm and then transferred to the womb between three and five days, that is, using ICSI after marriage.

The cost of freezing eggs
Copper section The cost of conducting the operation has two parts, namely the procedure of the procedure, and medication. He set the cost of withdrawing eggs between $ 470 and $ 600, and $ 30 annually after the first year. The drugs are on average $ 350, and the duration of administration varies according to the response of each case.

Copper spoke of the need to meet the situation before the freeze, to make sure it is necessary, and alternatives that exist, until the stability of the solution.

Dr. Wael Al-Banna, a specialist in obstetrics and fetal surgery at King's University in Britain, said that it is not right to encourage a woman to freeze eggs if she does not have cancer or has a poor ovarian stock, because the success rate of pregnancy in this process does not exceed 4%.

Banna said the freezing of eggs is an old property, so that it freezes other parts of the ovary, and when asked about his condition for marriage to perform the operation, he said that he does not require, and determine the prices of surgical procedures after signing the direct disclosure of the case, to see if they need surgical or treatment procedures.

Guarantees not to mix genealogy
In order to reassure potential clients, the centers concerned set up complex paper procedures to ensure that genealogy is not mixed, affidavits signed by both the doctor and the case, and accurate recordings to ensure that there is no possibility of confusion or error, especially since this point is why the jurists rejected the process.

For its part, the Egyptian House of Fatwa resolved the controversy permitting the process of freezing eggs, if conducted with certain controls, the first being that the process of fertilization between a couple, and that the egg extraction and return after fertilization in women during the marital relationship between them and the owner of the sperm, and it is not permissible to do so after Their separation or the death of the husband. The second is to keep fertilized vaccines safely and under tight control, to prevent mixing with other preserved vaccines.

The third officer was not to put the fertilized egg in the womb of the owner, and the fourth officer is that the process of freezing of the egg negative side effects on the fetus due to the impact of vaccines with various factors that may be subjected to conservation, such as the occurrence of birth defects, or mental retardation later.

While the fatwa used the decision of the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1990, which should be withdrawn from the eggs when they need to be vaccinated, and avoid the existence of surplus after that, and if it happens, the eggs are left without medical attention until the life of that surplus naturally, and did not address The fatwa for the status of unmarried women;