Some doctor recommended store bought pregnancy tests include first response clearblue ept and easy home.
Are digital pregnancy tests more accurate.
There are digital and non digital pregnancy tests you can purchase at the store.
The sensitivity of the pregnancy test.
However home pregnancy tests differ in the ability to diagnose pregnancy in women who have recently missed a period.
After more than 50 hours of research talking to a pregnancy hormone hcg expert and an ob gyn.
Home pregnancy tests were first developed in 1970 s as this way was found more covenient.
After a week of implantation most pregnancy tests irrespective whether digital or standard have 99 accuracy.
Certain sticks are powerful enough to detect the presence of a pregnancy within six days from the date you have missed your period.
But the results will be more accurate if you wait until the first.
Other more advanced tests called digital pregnancy tests will display the words pregnant or not pregnant which in our opinion takes a lot of the guesswork out of interpreting the result.
Don t let negative results keep you from hoping.
Digital pregnancy tests are more accurate when it is early to take the pregnancy test.
If you have a negative test but think you might be pregnant repeat the test one week after your missed period or talk to your health care provider.
Some pregnancy tests can spot hcg before you miss a period.
They don t have faint pregnancy tests or evaporation lines.
These are accurate because they avoid misinterpretation of pregnancy test results.
Many home pregnancy tests claim to be 99 percent accurate.
Too early or too late in the cycle can give you false negative result no matter if you are using traditional pregnancy tests or digital pregnancy tests.
Also remember some women don t see the increase in hcg as quickly as others so the test won t be as quick to get their results.
On a generic level digital pregnancy tests are comparatively more accurate than the other pregnancy sticks.
When to take a pregnancy test.
Some tests will show a change of color or have the appearance of a line or symbol to indicate whether or not you are pregnant.
Most pregnancy test manufacturers claim accurate results only if the test is taken on the right day of cycle.
The result displayed on a pregnancy test can be life changing so you need a clear accurate result.
Tomlinson et al which in 2008 compared the accuracy and certainty of results of six home pregnancy tests.
There is a clear advantage of digital tests as demonstrated by published papers e g.