What are the tests?
So, modern medicine offers several options for drugs that can determine the presence in the body of the hormone hCG (chorionic gonadotropin). He, by the way, can only appear in a pregnant woman. Let's consider each of them in more detail.
- Strips. This is the most affordable option, which can be purchased even in a supermarket or a cosmetics store. But it is better to buy it in the pharmacy. It is a small paper strip impregnated with a special agent that reacts to the hCG hormone. Paper should be lowered for a few seconds in a container with urine, and after five minutes, look at the number of strips. Two means a positive result, and you are really pregnant.
- Tablet. The principle of this test is about the same, but its use is more complicated. On the one hand, a few drops of urine (a pipette) should be introduced into the special hole, and on the other in a few minutes the result will be visible. It is believed that such a method of determining pregnancy is more reliable, but tablets are worth an order of magnitude more expensive.
- The inkjet test is considered the fastest and most accurate. Another advantage: it does not need to look for additional capacity for urine. The device should be simply placed under a stream of liquid and the result should be known in five minutes.
Which option is better to choose?
In fact, all of the above tests are fairly accurate and will be able to show the presence of pregnancy. But some recommendations for choosing are worth considering.
- Always use the instructions. Only in this case you will see the correct result.
- Pay attention to the date of production. An overdue test is unlikely to be reliable.
- Read the information on the sensitivity on the package. The higher it is - the more likely that the test will be able to catch even the slightest presence of a hormone in the urine. The most accurate, but also expensive, are considered to be jet tests.
When is it better to do the test?
The opinion that to find out whether the conception occurred immediately after sexual intercourse with the help of such a means, is erroneous. The fact is that the hormone accumulates in the body gradually and you will have to wait at least a week to find out whether you are pregnant or not.
Jet tests can act even before the delay begins. Other, cheaper means, it is necessary to use only after monthly delayed even for a day.
It is better to use several types of tests with different sensitivity at once or to do them with an interval of several days. Doctors insist that it is better to conduct a check in the morning, since at that time the content of hCG is the highest. Sometimes it happens that the second strip is barely visible or appears not immediately. In any case, even a pale and barely noticeable trace indicates that conception has occurred.
Several folk methods
- in a container with urine to drip with iodine. If it fades, conception does not happen, and if you remain floating on the surface with a single circle, wait for the addition.
- Mix urine and wine in equal proportions. In pregnant women, the fluid will remain clear, and in normal times, urine folds into wine.
- in the people believed that the urine of women in a delicate position is much darker in color.