Description

Dr. Schallock describes how home pregnancy tests work and discusses their accuracy.

Transcript

Home Accurate Pregnancy Tests Are Home pregnancy tests work by checking for what they call the Beta hCG. It’s a hormone produced by your body once you are pregnant. And usually they are a urine test, and you just buy them over-the-counter such as Target, Wal Mart, et cetera. You use a dipstick, your urine and see if it’s positive or negative. And 99.9 percent, someone could actually be pregnant, and maybe it’s just so early like if you get pregnant last night it may not show it yet, but technically they are accurate, yes. Generally speaking home pregnancy tests tell you about two weeks after conception whether or not if you are pregnant or not.