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What is a pregnancy test and how does it work?



 What is a pregnancy test and how does it work?
For women who do not know what is meant by pregnancy test and how it works this particular post will surly address the subject, during pregnancy the woman body under go series of physiological changes which normally comes with lots of symptoms such as vomiting, dizziness, laziness early morning sickness and many more, all off this are signs to show that you are pregnant but for accurate conformation you need to go for a pregnancy test.

Now back to the question in terms of definition of pregnancytest. It is a test designed to show weather or not a woman is pregnant. There are various test that can be done to show if it is positive or not such as the urine test, blood test as well as carrying out a scan .


For the urine test, to get accurate result early morning sample of urine is needed, this is done by peeing on the test stick with change in color in the sample stick most of the time comes in pink color this is a positive sign of pregnancy, but then there are cases where by after carrying out the urine test which shows positive, you later find out it is a false positive that is the more reason you have to go for a blood test for full prove confirmation.

Another reason for false positive could be as a result of low human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is the hormone responsible for pregnancy, this is as a result for carrying out the test too early then you have to wait five to seven days before embarking on same test then the HCG hormone must have risen you are sure of getting correct result, yet you still need the blood test for full proof.

With urine test you can do it at home without the aid of any medical personal just following the instruction on the manual with couples of minutes you have your result.

Another type of pregnancy test is the blood test type which is done in hospital by medical personal though you get accurate result with this method it takes time for you to get the result on like the urine test. Which you get within minutes of peeing.