Can an early pregnancy test tell you the truth ? How early ?

     Impatient by their nature, women would like to find out if they are pregnant or not the second they tried to conceive. Not only they don’t have the patience to wait for seeing a doctor, but they are a little shameful of that and they would like to have another method within reach. Now with all the progresses in technology, there is a new method to find out the result without going on a clinic: the home pregnancy tests – which are even more economical than a clinic test.

     As it is known, there are two types of pregnancy tests: blood and urine tests. Home pregnancy tests are based on the urine and they work by a simple principle: they have to detect a certain hormone, known as the pregnancy hormone, in the women’s urine. This hormone, technically called human chorionic gonadotropin, is produced by the placenta after a fertilized egg has implanted in the uterine wall. If a pregnancy test detects the presence of this hormone in a woman’s urine she is almost certainly pregnant.

     There are many types of those home pregnancy tests on the market with different sensitivity levels, but they can all detect hCG as low as 15 ml/u. When a woman is pregnant, the quantity in her body should be around 25 mlU at 10 dpo (days past ovulation), 50 mlU at 12 dpo, 100 mlU at 14 days. So, looking the figures and considering this information, we can say that those pregnancy tests are true, but there are many conditions which must be accomplished for a correct result. From those we can specify:

• follow rigorously the test’s instructions
• use the first morning urine, because if you are pregnant you will accumulate overnight a bigger amount of hCG
• try to not exaggerate with water drinking before taking the test
• check the test result fairly soon because it can be compromised after a longer time
• be careful on how early you take the test

     Early pregnancy tests are very questionable for most women because, unavoidable, a question appears: Can early pregnancy test tell us the truth?. Well, the answer is fairly simple..if you fallow all these instructions the possibility of finding out the truth is of 98%.

     Now, regarding the earliest moment in which you can take the test, most doctors recommend to take the test 2 weeks after ovulation. But, regarding what we’ve just discussed in the previous paragraph, you can take the test 10 days after ovulation because then the hCG can appear too. If the test result is a positive one it means that you are surely pregnant, but if it is a negative one you should retest after a few days to be sure, because the hCG can appear later (depending on your organism).

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