Author: Xuan Lihua (Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Shunyi District Hospital)
The smell of male semen is produced by prostatic fluid, and the chemical substance of arginine is released after oxidation, which is very similar to the smell of chestnut flowers or has a fishy smell.
Semen lacks this fishy smell when prostate secretion is impaired.
Thus, the sperm does not smell. At this time, you should focus on your prostate, because most of the semen is prostatic fluid, and the smell of semen is mainly related to prostatic fluid.
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Prostate disease or seminal vesicle disease can cause semen to smell bad. See if it is accompanied by symptoms of frequent urination, urgency and inexhaustible urination, whether it is accompanied by symptoms such as low abdominal pain and testicular discomfort.
You can go to a regular reason to find a urology department or an andrology department to check the prostate fluid. See if there is an infection.
If frequent intercourse or frequent masturbation, the secretion function of the prostate and seminal vesicles decreases, the number of sperm in the semen will decrease, and the semen smell will also be insufficient.
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In addition to paying attention to the smell of semen, the analysis of semen quality cannot be concluded from a certain index of semen alone, and a comprehensive analysis of various indicators should be carried out.
The commonly used indicators for evaluating semen quality include semen pH value, one ejaculate volume, semen color, liquefaction time, viscosity, sperm concentration and sperm motility and other related indicators.
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