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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

Can Home Pregnancy Test Ever Be Wrong

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Pregnancy tests work by testing for human chorionic gonadotrophin which is only found in the body after pregnancy. A negative result can either mean that you are not pregnant, you took the test too early or you took the test 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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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• 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?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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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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