You Can Freeze Your Sperm at Home With This Kit

Some things are better handled at home. (Photo: Getty Images)

Listen up, guys—there’s no need to head to your local fertility clinic to hand over your swimmers.

The NextGen® Home Sperm Banking Kit is a new product which allows men to collect their semen sample at home, pack it up tightly and ship it off overnight to the prestigious Cleveland Clinic’s Andrology Center, where it will be frozen in a state-of-the-art banking facility for as long as they desire.

What’s in the kit? A sperm collection container, transport fluid, complete collection and mailing instructions, necessary forms requiring signatures, as well as packing materials and a prepaid shipping label to return the sample.

“And it contains all of the materials for the patient to read in a very simple, step-by-step manner,” Ashok Agarwal, PhD, Director of the Andrology Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic, tells Yahoo Health.

The specially designed case will keep the sample “alive” for up to 48 hours during the overnight transport, he states, “and the sperm does not excessively decrease in the quality over that time.”

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Dr. Agarwal further explains that there are a number of men who can benefit from this do-it-yourself product. Most obviously, males in their 20s and 30s who aren’t quite ready for fatherhood.

“Then there are men who are going oversees, who are in the US armed forces or military, and they want to freeze their sperm in case they end up having any problems during their time abroad,” adds Dr. Agarwal. Also, men scheduled for a vasectomy “who may want to protect their fertility in case they change their mind or have a change in their family circumstances down the road.”

However, he states the “best people” for this item are men between the ages of 20 and 40, who are dealing with cancer and undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment. “It doesn’t need to be a reproductive cancer, either,” says Dr. Agarwal. “There are quite a number of cancers detected in the US today within this age group.”

And of course, this kit is ideal for any man who is looking to save his sperm in privacy. “That’s the biggest appeal,” states Dr. Agarwal. “Some men do not feel comfortable collecting their sample on a laboratory premise. So they will feel much more at ease in their own setting.”

The NextGen® Home Sperm Banking Kit is available through Fairhaven Health and sells for $499.

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