Is a pregnancy test accurate?

     A pregnancy is a serious problem for some women, a big dream for others, but for all of them it’s very important, therefore when they decide to investigate if they are pregnant or not they would like to find out a way which can give them the most accurate result. Generally, most women appeal to a pregnancy test to find out the truth, but as there are two types of those tests (clinic tests and home ones), they have to choose one of them considering its advantages that are the most important for them.

     Usually, the most chosen type of pregnancy tests is the home one, not only because of the lower price, but also because it offers them the possibility to find out if they are pregnant or not in the privacy of their own homes. However, for many women, these advantages are not the only reasons to choose it, another important thing being also the accuracy, therefrom the question: “Is a pregnancy test accurate?”. Well, most home pregnancy tests have an accuracy of 98-99%, which means a difference of only 1 percent from the clinic ones, but for getting such an accurate result you should take the test at the proper time.

     Now you are probably wondering which is the proper time. Well, the doctors recommend to take it 2 weeks after ovulation, which means 2 weeks after the moment you think you have conceived, but if you have a missed period the test instructions assure you of an accurate result the day you have missed it. But you can also get a very accurate result earlier than these recommended dates, but you have to be careful to the way you take the test and follow its instructions exactly.

     The earliest moment you can take a home pregnancy test is the 7th day after ovulation, and that’s because in the first 6 days, from biological causes, your body has no hCG to be detected by your test and will give you a negative result even if you are pregnant. Therefore the 7th day is considered the earliest moment to get an accurate result, but you don’t have to take it as a rule because womens’ bodies act differently and some could produce this hCG (the pregnancy hormone) much later than others.

     As a conclusion, if you follow the test instructions, without making any mistake, and if you don’t take it too early you will surely get an accurate result and so you will find out yourself the answer to the question: “Is a pregnancy test accurate?”.

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