PEOPLE spoke with Dr. Zev Williams about what patients seeking fertility treatments can do while their services may be halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic
, both physically and emotionally, in the time leading up to treatments? First, don't go overboard on supplements , and "stay healthy, eat well" and "exercise regularly," he adds.
Advice "unique to the COVID-19 age" would be to try to avoid snacking too much despite how tempting it might be while stuck inside and to make sure one's vitamin D levels are adequate through a supplement if necessary, considering fewer people will be getting the amount they need from sunlight since a"Maintaining good levels of physical activity is important" as well, he adds, pointing out that this is especially crucial for many who are used to being more active for...
The good news is the fact that "the field of fertility medicine has advanced so much over the years that success in general [is more common] than it has ever been before," Dr.
In the meantime, Dr. Williams encourages patients to keep in contact with their clinics, and insists that many practices are doing their best to work with more time-conscious patients on the steps they can take right now to get them in and back to their regularly scheduled treatments as soon — and safely — as possible.
"[We] put together a very careful and responsible approach to allow those patients for whom time is so critical to be able to start while still protecting patients, staff,," he tells PEOPLE. "There's a lot of measures that we've taken to mitigate the situation and make it as safe as possible for everyone involved, to be able to safely [administer] fertility treatments when time if of the essence and delays can be very detrimental.
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