What is the AMH test? Rapidly test whether the ovaries are suitable for pregnancy

Fertility is a woman's innate ability and right, but fertility is not completely synchronized with your feelings, especially the ovarian reserve capacity of women. Therefore, you should test your ovarian function before preparing for pregnancy, especially working women should check AMH before preparing for pregnancy. Let it give you an authoritative answer. The following is what the AMH test is? Quickly test whether the ovaries are suitable for pregnancy.

What is the AMH test?

AMH stands for anti-Mullerian hormone. The AMH test reagent uses the latest generation of specific AMH antibodies with excellent sensitivity and stability. The antibody was selected for the development of WHO AMH standard substances, and the standard substance uses human recombinant AMH. The standard substance was adopted by the US CAP as a quality control material for the AMH test method, and the international inter-laboratory quality assessment results were excellent, ensuring that the test results are in line with international standards. According to research, AMH levels reach a peak when women are around 25 years old; but after the age of 30, women's AMH levels begin to decline; after the age of 35, it enters a rapid decline period, and by the time women reach menopause, it is almost undetectable in the body. The average age of menopause for Chinese women is 49.5 years old. Since AMH is involved in the process of small follicles becoming large follicles, to the maturation of follicles, ovulation, and conception, by testing AMH levels, we can know the ovarian reserve function of women, thereby achieving the purpose of evaluating women's fertility.

AMH predicts menopausal age

At present, the reproductive age of women is gradually delayed, but the speed of ovarian aging varies greatly from person to person, so it is necessary to predict fertility decline and menopausal age. For women in the menopausal transition period, AMH changes before other endocrine indicators. A previous follow-up of 257 women for 11 consecutive years found that AMH and age can be used to predict menopausal age and calculate relevant formulas, but these conclusions are based on data from women in the late reproductive age or even perimenopausal or infertile women. It is still uncertain whether they are applicable to the prediction of menopausal age in young women. At present, there is a lack of relevant data on the prediction of menopausal age of Chinese women using AMH.

AMH for evaluating fertility in cancer patients

Radiotherapy and chemotherapy of tumors can cause ovarian dysfunction, leading to infertility and premature menopause. Patients with high AMH levels before treatment have faster ovarian function recovery after radiotherapy and chemotherapy than those with low AMH levels. Foreign scholars followed up 134 breast cancer patients (18-43 years old) for 5 years and found that 69% of the patients had undetectable AMH during chemotherapy, and their AMH levels increased slightly after chemotherapy. The re-recruitment of follicles in the primordial follicle pool may be the cause of the increase in AMH after chemotherapy, but this does not mean that ovarian function can be fully restored, and early menopause and premature ovarian failure will still occur. With the help of AMH to assess the ovarian reserve status, fertility preservation can be done in advance. AMH is considered to be a rising star in assessing women's reproductive health and fertility. With the reduction of AMH detection costs and the optimization of detection methods, the application scope of AMH detection and treatment will be more extensive, which will become another breakthrough in the field of reproductive medicine.

Precautions for pregnancy preparation

1. Keep a regular schedule and don’t stay up late

There is an old saying: work at sunrise and rest at sunset. It means that we should have a regular life and not stay up late. For prospective parents who are preparing for pregnancy, staying up late has many bad effects on the body and may even affect fertility.

Research reports show that artificial light and street lights at night not only affect sleep quality, but also interfere with fertility. Therefore, if women plan to get pregnant, they must first create a quiet and dark sleeping environment and ensure that they get enough sleep for 8 hours every night.

2. Pay attention to the importance of breakfast

Diet has an important relationship with the reproductive capacity of men and women. In the three months before pregnancy, both husband and wife should pay attention to dietary diversity, strengthen nutrition, and eat a reasonable diet to keep the body in the best condition and prepare for pregnancy.

In terms of diet, both husband and wife should ensure sufficient high-quality protein, reasonable supplement of minerals and trace elements, eat more vegetables and fruits containing high vitamins, eat more fish and poultry, especially deep-sea fish, and both husband and wife should strictly abstain from smoking and drinking.

3. Adequate nutrition and calcium supplement

For women who are preparing for pregnancy, sufficient calcium in the body can relieve pregnancy discomforts such as calf cramps, back and leg pain, edema, etc., and prevent osteoporosis, postpartum back pain, etc. At the same time, it is also very beneficial to the development of the fetus' teeth and bones.

Women can choose to supplement calcium through food. They can choose some calcium-rich foods in their daily diet, such as milk, eggs, soy products, kelp, sesame, vegetables, etc. They can also choose calcium carbonate supplements containing high concentrations of CPP.