Can I detect pregnancy if my period is delayed for 5 days?

Can pregnancy be detected after a 5-day delay in pregnancy? This question may arise for women who are having their first sexual intercourse or have only had a few sexual experiences. Because they worry about the possibility of getting pregnant or not being able to have children in the short term, they feel very anxious about the delay of menstruation. So what is the reason for menstruation during pregnancy? Let’s take a look.

Can I detect pregnancy if my period is delayed for 5 days?

Can pregnancy be detected if menstruation is delayed for five days? Many married women become very anxious if their menstruation is delayed for one or two days, and they are accustomed to using early pregnancy test strips to detect whether they are pregnant. In fact, the current test is not accurate. The detection time of the pregnancy test strip is one week after the menstruation is delayed. Although early pregnancy test strips are said to have 99% accuracy, due to individual operational issues, the accuracy of detection varies greatly, ranging from 50% to 98%.

How can there be such a big difference? When women do pregnancy tests themselves at home without receiving systematic and accurate guidance, the test results are generally only 50% to 75% accurate. Taking a pregnancy test at night will be affected: The instructions of some early pregnancy test strips read: "Urine on one end of the test card with the top facing down and the display window not facing the body to prevent urine from splashing on it."

Some early pregnancy test strips instruct users as follows: "Hold the urine burette and drop 3 drops of urine 3 cm above the urine dish at the bottom of the pregnancy test strip." If you read the details of these instructions carefully several times and think about them repeatedly, there will probably be no problem. However, for a woman who is anxious and panicked because of the fear of pregnancy, mistakes are inevitable because she cannot follow the instructions calmly and patiently. Moreover, the test results are also very confusing, whether it is color response or wireframe response, it is not easy to describe.

What is the reason for menstruation during pregnancy?

The reason why you still have your period after you become pregnant is because of implantation bleeding that occurs after the fertilized egg embryo implants. In the early stages of pregnancy, when the egg is fertilized and implanted, human chorionic gonadotropin begins to appear in the urine, reaching its peak in the eighth week of pregnancy. These hormones act similarly to progesterone, causing the corpus luteum of the ovary to grow and develop into the corpus luteum of pregnancy. The corpus luteum in pregnancy continues to metabolize estrogen and estrogen, which in turn causes the uterine wall to form decidua, ensuring the continued development of sperm and egg fusion.

If the human chorionic gonadotropin in the pregnant woman's body cannot convert the corpus luteum into progesterone, and the true decidua and the pericranium are not completely combined, a small part of the uterine wall is still in an active state and is affected by the ovarian hormone. Therefore, a small amount of false or even imperceptible bleeding will occur every month. But after three months of pregnancy, the embryo metabolizes estrogen to replace the function of the ovaries. At this time, the true decidua and the pericranium combine, and it is not easy to have menstruation again. Generally speaking, vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy is not a true menstrual period, but may be caused by problems with the cervix. However, in very rare cases, menstruation during pregnancy can be understood as a physiological need after embryo implantation.