If you have not had bleeding when you should have your period and you have symptoms of early pregnancy such as groin pain and breast tenderness, you should take a pregnancy test. A home pregnancy test is performed using urine
. The advantage of the home test is that it gives quick results, is easy to do, and also that this information
remains private to you, that is, confidential.
To perform a urine pregnancy test, urinate on the test stick. Thus, the test kit determines the pregnancy hormone called hCG in your urine. On the 6th day after pregnancy occurs, the early embryo called blastocyst
begins to produce the hCG hormone. As the embryo moves into the uterus, the amount of hormone it produces increases rapidly. In home pregnancy tests, the value of the pregnancy hormone in the urine is sensitive enough to determine one of the values of 20
milliunits/milliliter, 50 or 100 milliunits/milliliter. This value
is usually written in the test box. The lower the value it determines, the more accurate the test will give.
In the first days after your menstrual period, a pregnancy test can detect pregnancy at a rate of 90%. However, a negative test in the very early days does not mean that you are not pregnant. Therefore, if the result is negative but you have pregnancy symptoms, you should repeat the test 1 week after your missed menstrual period.
Additionally, you will get more accurate results when you test with your first urine when you wake up in the morning because
the pregnancy hormone has accumulated in your urine all night long. It will happen. Therefore, the test determines the hcg hormone better
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