Can Home Pregnancy Test Ever Be Wrong
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Can Home Pregnancy Test Ever Be Wrong?
Home pregnancy tests can never be
wrong as long as you follow the
instructions properly.
The tests are 99% accurate
Get answers to common questions
about home pregnancy tests.
You may not want to go to a doctor when you are not sure
about your pregnancy.
A pregnancy test lets you know, one way or the other within few
minutes if you are pregnant.
It allows you to discover your pregnancy in the privacy of your
home and offers enough space for your emotions after
discovering the truth.
You can buy it without any prescription, read and follow easy
instructions.
HOME PREGNANCY TEST
HOME PREGNANCY TEST
How does a home pregnancy test work?
• Home pregnancy test work by measuring
the amount of a human chorionic
gonadotrophin (HCG) in the urine.
• It is advisable to use your first morning
urine as it will contain the highest HCG
concentration. This means that even if you
are only days pregnant – it should
register.
• There can be no other reason for HCG to
be in your urine to read positive.
• Pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg called
‘pre-embryo’ implants itself on the uterine wall,
and the body starts producing human chorionic
gonadotrophin ( HCG) which only exists in your
body when you are pregnant.
• HCG level in your urine and blood will increase
every day until around 90 days.
• All a home pregnancy test does is checking the
presence of HCG in urine.
How accurate Are Home Pregnancy Tests?
• According to statistics, a home pregnancy
test is 99% accurate.
– But sometimes it may not be accurate if taken
too soon after conception. You may get
negative results as the pregnancy hormones in
your body are still too low to be detected at
that particular time. The earlier you test the
more uncertain results. This is why early
pregnancy tests can get so confusing.
• Therefore you may be required to take
further tests even though a home
pregnancy test is 99% accurate.
Pregnancy tests have improved over the past years.
Your first morning urine will show the best results because it
will have the strongest concentration of HCG even when you
are only days pregnant.
The Accuracy Of Home Pregnancy Tests Depends Upon:
•How soon after pregnancy you take the test.
•How closely you follow instructions.
•How soon implantation occurs and when you ovulate in
your cycle.
•The sensitivity of the pregnancy test.
•Keep in mind that waiting at least a week after a missed
period may give you the most accurate result.
•Results may also be more accurate if you do the test
first thing in the morning, when your urine is more
concentrated.
Certain medical conditions can lead to
false positive test results
Some medical conditions can
cause positive results on a
home pregnancy test.
•Forms of cancer usually
found in the uterus can
cause an elevation in
human chorionic
gonadotrophin levels and
certain types of breast,
ovarian or testicular cancer
leading to a false positive
result. This is not common
though.
It is important to follow up with
your doctor If you receive a
positive result from a home
pregnancy test
What Are Certain Medications That Can lead to false
Results?Certain medications can interfere with test results.
•For instance, Women receiving hCG therapy to treat
fertility problems should consult their doctor.
•Medications like promethazine, used to treat allergies
If you’re under any medication, the patient information
leaflet that comes with it will tell you whether it affects
test results.
Evaporation line on a pregnancy test
• Some home pregnancy tests have been
described by women as having an
evaporation line. They are lines that appear
in a pregnancy test after a test has been
used and sitting for a while. It is
recommended that you only look at the
results during a very specific time frame(5
Minutes) so that you do not confuse the
appearance of urine evaporation lines with
a faintly positive test line.
• When your urine begins to evaporate, it
leaves a faint line in the same location,
called an evaporation line. Many women
look at their tests and see a negative result.
After looking again hours later, there is a
second line on the test hours later, it’s an
evaporation line, not a pregnancy indicator.
• 12 days after the sexual intercourse that led to the
pregnancy or two days before your period is due can
be the best time to take a home pregnancy test.
• The only problem with home pregnancy tests is that
many women test so early.
• Before 7 days there isn’t enough human chorionic
gonadotrophin in your system for the test to be
completely accurate. The HCG hormones are just too
low to detect through a urine test.
• Before 7 days your body may not have properly
implanted yet, hence giving you a false positive if
implantation is unsuccessful.
• After you conceive, your HCG level will be doubling
daily. So if today your levels were at 20, tomorrow they
will be at 40, and the day after that they will be at 80.
This is why pregnancy tests normally tell you to wait a
day or two before retesting. With each passing day,
your levels increase dramatically.
When should I take a home pregnancy test?
Test your pregnancy earlier with sensitive pregnancy
test strips
You can test your pregnancy as early as one week after conceiving or after your
first missed period. This allows you to begin your parental care early to ensure the
perfect health of your baby. There are various test strips you can use to detect the
human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). They are the same styles used by doctors.
The strips are designed for professional users to test the level of
HCG, but they found a place in home pregnancy testing due to their
ease of use and low cost.
They are extremely sensitive because they can register levels as
low as 25 mIU / m.
The urine tests are the most common types of home
pregnancy testing. There are two methods of testing
depending on the model you use. With the majority of home
pregnancy tests, you immerse the dipstick in a container of
collected urine for five to 10 seconds. A few minutes later, the
dipstick reveals the test result. You should read all instructions
carefully before you take the test.
•One is to pee directly on the
stick or dip it in a sample of
your urine.
•The other is to deposit a
sample of your urine in a
sample with a dropper.
•Others you hold the test stick
directly into the stream of
urine.
•The method does not make a
difference to your test results.
It is merely a matter of
preference.
Are there different methods of testing pregnancies?
If you cannot use a morning urine, the urine you use should be in your bladder
for at least four hours.
You should use a clean, dry container to collect the urine sample. There should
be not traces of any previous substance in the container.
Read and follow instructions
Wait for 5 minutes to read the results
Check the expiry date of the home pregnancy test kit.
Waiting at least a week after a missed testing
Doing it the first thing in the morning when the urine is concentrated
What are the things
to consider when
taking a home
pregnancy test?
It is very important to confirm your pregnancy. You can contact Billiga
graviditetstest for cheap pregnancy testing and ovulation tests with a reliability of
99%. Learn more about home pregnancy testing. You can have a blood test to
detect HCG because the blood test is more sensitive than the urine test and it
can be done in most health care offices.
Keep in mind that home pregnancy tests are considered reliable when used
according to package instructions one week after a missed period. By following
instructions, home pregnancy test can never be wrong.
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