A friend of mine and I have been argueing that if a pregnant woman pees in a pool, that if you take a home pregnancy test kit and dip it in the pool a few hours later that it will show positive. So, if you dip a pregnancy test kit in a public pool, then you would be able to know if a pregnant woman has peed in it. Any feedback or experience with this?
2007-01-14 05:31:54 · 14 answers · asked by justcurious 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
the pee would be sterilized by the clorine bleach in the pool, and not in a high enough concentration to show up on the test... it would come out negative or inconclusive.
2007-01-14 05:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by confused 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hormone would be too diluted to show positive on a pregnancy test. Even if a whole swim class full of pregnant women peed in the pool.
2007-01-14 05:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not. if you ever have read the directions on one of those kits, you have to pee directly onto the sponge part that soaks in the hormones. And....peeing in pools? wouldn't just be easier to go around asking women if they are pregnant. I'm pretty sure they are able to take the test all on their own.
2007-01-14 05:55:38 · answer #3 · answered by momathome 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is too much water and chlorine in a pool and for someone to pee in it will not be showing up on a test. Sorry but this is not true
2007-01-14 05:44:41 · answer #4 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares. you both have too much time on your hands to be arguing about something obvious as that. there are so many chemicals in pools plus little kids pee in them anyway. so you'd have no sure way of what you picked up on the preg. test. get a life.
2007-01-14 05:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by Mel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ha im so glad u asked that was what happened to me when i was preggy i went to new block park and peed in the public pool and my husband took a digital test and just dipped it once in the water and it had 2 lines one on not preggy and one on positive!!!!! guess there was just too much pee lol
2007-01-14 05:36:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First. eeew.
Then, seriously, I doubt that a hormone that makes up a miniscule fraction of a half-cup of urine would be detectable once its diluted by thousands of gallons of chlorinated water.
Once you get down to a couple of molecules per billion of Anything, its hard for even delicately calibrated instruments to catch...
2007-01-14 05:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, it would be WAY too diluted and the chemicals in the pool would result the test. it would not work.
2007-01-14 05:34:55 · answer #8 · answered by redpeach_mi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the result will not show up, b/c of the chemicals in the pool.
2007-01-18 03:21:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if she pee'd 6-8 thousand gallons.....
2007-01-14 05:35:56 · answer #10 · answered by The Emperor of Ecstasy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋