How accurate is the early pregnancy test?

Many couples forget to use condoms when they have sex, which may cause them to worry about whether they are pregnant. They want to buy early pregnancy test strips to test themselves, because it is very convenient and cost-effective, but do you know what the success rate of early pregnancy test strips is? Do you think that the results of early pregnancy test strips are wrong and will give you wrong information?

In fact, although the success rate of early pregnancy test strips is said to be 99%, you must never trust your test results too much. According to expert statistics, the success rate of early pregnancy test strips varies greatly, ranging from 50% to 98%.

Why is there such a big difference in the success rate of early pregnancy test strips? Gynecologists point out that when women do their own pregnancy tests at home without external guidance, the success rate of early pregnancy test strips is generally only 50% to 75%. If such tests are done in the laboratory in front of a doctor, the doctor can ensure that the pregnancy test paper works normally, and the woman can use the pregnancy test paper correctly according to the instructions, the success rate of the early pregnancy test paper will be close to 100%.

The manufacturers of early pregnancy test strips and ovulation test mirrors claim that in the laboratory, it has been confirmed that the accuracy of today's early pregnancy test strips is 99%. However, when using early pregnancy test strips, women must remember to follow the instructions carefully to ensure that the test results are correct and reliable. However, during the operation process, it is not easy to use it correctly according to the instructions.

The instructions of some early pregnancy test strips say: urinate on one end of the test card with the absorbent tip facing down, and the display window should not face 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 key points of these explanations carefully several times and think them over again and again, you may not run into any problems. 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 carefully. Moreover, the test results are also very confusing, whether it is the color reflection or the line frame reflection, it is not easy to explain.

Many friends don’t know how much an early pregnancy test paper costs or where to buy it. In fact, they are available in many areas. The price of an early pregnancy test paper varies from city to city across the country. The price of an early pregnancy test paper in a pharmacy generally ranges from 2 yuan to more than ten yuan.

How to use: Insert the end of the test paper with the arrow into the urine sample collection container, remove it and set it aside after at least 3 seconds, and wait for 5 minutes to observe the display result. Note: The depth of the test paper inserted into the urine should not exceed the marked line.

It is best to use the first urine after waking up in the morning, because the first urine in the morning contains the most HCG, so the test result will be more accurate.