Pregnancy test and the faintest pink line
Article : How do pregnancy tests work and what is the faint line?
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Home pregnancy tests are supposed to detect beta HGC in urine. This is a hormone which can be found in pregnant women because it is responsible for the continuing production of oestrogens and gestagens in the ovary.
Most home pregnancy tests work as follows: The woman has to hold the point of the pregnancy test into the urine (preferably the morning urine should be used, as the concentration of beta HGC is higher in the morning). Normally, after a few minutes, the results are already available. Most of today's pregnancy tests show one line which indicates that the test has been carried out successfully regardless whether the woman is pregnant or not. In case the woman is pregnant, another line occurs which is produced due to the existence of the HGC hormone. It does not matter whether this line is very clear or very faint, if a second line is shown, this indicates the detection of HGC, which means that the woman is pregnant.
As home pregnancy tests are supposed to have a reliability of 90 - 98%, there is also a slight risk that the test supply a wrong result, i.e. due to wrong handling, wrongly stored or old tests etc.
If the test is negative, although the woman is pregnant, this can be due to the following reason: The level of beta HGC has not been high enough for the test to detect it. If the woman still has doubts about a possible pregnancy, she should make another pregnancy test a few days later.
If the test is positive, although the woman is not pregnant (anymore), the egg cell has probably been fertilized and embedded, but due to non-development of the progeny, it has been pushed off which results in bleeding similar to the period.
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