A properly conducted pregnancy test can indicate almost 100 percent. whether the woman is pregnant or not. Home pregnancy tests are also favored by their low price and general availability. Pregnancy tests are extremely easy to use, but in order to get the most accurate result, there are a few rules to follow.
Home pregnancy tests
- High efficiency
- Simplicity of the test
- Available in pharmacies and drugstores
- Price even from PLN 7
- Tile, jet or strip
How do home pregnancy tests work?
Their task is to detect chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG. It is a hormone produced during pregnancy, the concentration of which becomes very high at the time of embryo formation, which is detected by popular pregnancy tests. The HCG hormone produced by the embryo allows you to maintain pregnancy, because it keeps progesterone at an appropriate, unchanging level.
Rules for conducting a pregnancy test
- The test is best done with morning urinebecause it is the least rarefied and contains the most hormones. Late urine testing may give a false negative result, and morning urine testing is the most reliable
- The test is not carried out until the seventh day at the earliest after an expected late period
- When performing the selected test, follow the instructions given in the test instructions step by step
- It is best to pass the middle stream of urine (not the first, not the last) into a small container, and then collect two drops of urine from it with a pipette. In some tests, all you need to do is to wet the test paper in urine, which will give the result
- The tests usually consist of two strips, one of them is the control field. Indicates whether the test was performed according to the instructions and whether the following result is valid. The second “line” indicates the presence of the HCG hormone. If only it stains, this result is also incorrect, because although the test indicated the presence of the hormone, and thus pregnancy, it was performed incorrectly (e.g. the urine sample could be contaminated). Therefore, only two colored “lines” mean pregnancy
- A slight color of the “line” also indicates pregnancy, but it is worth repeating the test, because the presence of the hormone could be very low – hence the weak color of the test
- The test result is only read after one to five minutes. A test read too early or too late is invalid
- The reliability of a pregnancy test is 95-99%, so you should always visit a gynecologist after performing it in case of a positive result
It is also always worth using contraceptives that protect against pregnancy in the event that the result turns out to be negative and you do not plan to raise a child.