Home Pregnancy Test Sensitivity Study: HCG Levels Revealed

Do you know most of the home pregnancy test kits are based on sensitivity? All the pregnancy kits are having the chemical to identify the presence of HCG. HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin. The pregnant test is positive once this hormone is detected in the urine. This is produced in the placenta and present in the blood and urine of the pregnant women.

Sometimes the traces of this hormone is detected in the urine, if you have consumed fertility drugs with an intention to get conceive. Hence waiting for at least couple of weeks to go for test of pregnancy after ingestion of this fertility drugs is essential. Otherwise it may lead to false positive.

Different brands of home pregnancy test kits consist have varied home pregnancy test sensitivity. Once the home pregnancy test sensitivity increases the days of tests also can be reduced. (From 2 months to 4 weeks).

HCG and Sensitivity
Home pregnancy test sensitivity refers to the point at which HCG can be detected by the home pregnancy test. HCG is measured in thousand units and the typical home pregnancy test can detect the hormone from between 25 mIU (thousand international units) to 100 mIU.

Equate, a Wal-Mart’s store brand offers two home pregnancy test sensitivity choices- White and purple. The white one will detect the HCG at 25 mIU while the purple one will detect 100 mIU.

Another package - First Response may detect HCG level as little as 12.5mIU to 15 m IU. The kit that is having high home pregnancy test sensitivity rating is the one that offers the result on the first missed day of the period or even before as missed period.

After studying this article, you may come to conclusion that the higher priced home pregnancy tests would automatically have a low home pregnancy test sensitivity rating, but it is not true.

EPT, the first home pregnancy kit on the market is having years of reliability apart from detecting the pregnancy if the urine contains HCG above 40mIU. Still most of the women rely upon due to its convenience. Ept uses the words PREGNANT and NON-PREGNANT INSTEAD a line of demarcation.

Most of the women do like this test strip than any other strip owing to the reason that there is no need to stare at the test strip to confirm whether there is a line or not. EPT takes the speculation out of the home pregnancy test.

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