Ensuring accurate pregnancy test

Every woman, who longs to be a mother, would keep an eye on the early symptoms of pregnancy that would fill her life with joy. This is one moment that changes the entire world revolving around her. And once they find such symptoms, they purchase home pregnancy kit to confirm the good news. The question is whether these pregnancy test kits are reliable and whether they can predict accurate results.

Let us take a look at how a pregnancy test kit is used what the accuracy level of such tests is carried out at home. Home pregnancy test is also known as HPT detects the presence of pregnancy hormones also known as HCG in a woman's urine. HCG is a hormone which is secreted by the placenta once the fertilization takes place. To test for the result, such home pregnancy kit manufacturers and doctors recommend that one waits until the first day of woman's missed period before taking an HPT. However, some HPT tests can detect the presence of pregnancy hormones at a very early stage with the pregnancy test.

EPT pregnancy test kits are available in two types - the certainty digital home pregnancy test and the EPT +/- home pregnancy test kit. Among the two, the certainty EPT pregnancy test is considered to offer unmistakable results. This particular pregnancy test uses a digital reading. Using this type of kit for pregnancy test is very simple and easy. Under HPT test, women are advised to take the first urine sample after they get up in the morning for accurate result, whereas certainty pregnancy kit can be used at any time of the day and is said to offer 99% accuracy when taken on the first day of your missed period.

How to use the EPT test? One needs to follow four easy steps. Remove the cap and insert your test strip into the holder then place the absorbent tip under your urine stream or in a cup filled with fresh urine for about five to seven seconds. Wait for three minutes until the digital results are displayed.

The test for pregnancy result under other type of EPT pregnancy kit ie the EPT +/- HPT kit, all you need to do is remove the cap, place the absorbent tip in a cup of urine for about five to seven seconds and then wait for two minutes until the results are displayed. This particular EPT test is also said to provide 99% accurate results and should be taken on the first day of your missed period.

Once you have done the test, and if the result is positive, make sure that you visit the doctor at the earliest. Almost all the doctors still go for another pregnancy test using your blood as specimen, to confirm the home pregnancy test results. This is because, though the pregnancy test kits used are effective and provide accurate results, sometimes factors such as medication and fertility treatments can lead to false HPT results. And visiting a doctor is also important since he would guide you about the care to be taken in the next three trimesters.