is pregnancy test is accurate?

Answer 1

For the most part, they are reliable...it just depends on how far along you might be (or not be)! Good luck!

Answer 2

Accurate? I would have thought the question should have said reliable! Then the answer would be .. generally.. if done properly in accordance with the instructions and at the time interval stated on the instructions. The makers of these tests "do not guarantee" accuracy. They are merely a guide. The statistics on a package I am currently reading says that they predict an 80% chance of reliability

Answer 3

Nothing is a hundred percent accurate. Most of the percent accuracy is also over exaggerated. The company kind of fiddle with the numbers to make it look better. Also, its dependent on who ran the test. They have a few guys doing it hundreds of time. Even in a lab, they are more likely to make a mistake then the people who they got to test it for accuracy.

Answer 4

Yes. A home pregnancy test is almost always correct. Here's why......
Home pregnancy tests measure the presence of a telltale hormone in your urine called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). This hormone, produced by cells from the placenta, first gets into your bloodstream when the fertilized egg implants in your uterus (about six days after fertilization). The amount of hCG in your body then increases rapidly over the next few weeks, doubling in amount about every two days. By 14 days after fertilization (about the time you would expect your period), some home pregnancy tests may be able to detect the hormone in your urine and give you a positive result. But in spite of their claims, most are not sensitive enough to guarantee you an accurate result at this point. In fact, you're much more likely to get an accurate result if you wait until a week after your expected period before testing.
Most home pregnancy tests claim to be "greater than 99 percent accurate" and imply that you can use them as early as the day you miss your period, but a study published in 2004 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown that this is misleading. The fact is that the amount of hCG in the urine on any given day after implantation can vary a great deal from one woman to another. Laurence Cole and other researchers at the University of New Mexico evaluated 18 currently available tests and found that only one was consistently sensitive enough to detect the levels of hCG that most pregnant women were likely to have on the first day of their missed menstrual period. Most of the other tests were only sensitive enough to pick up about 16 percent of pregnancies at that point, though many were likely to be accurate a week after an expected period was due.

So how can all these tests claim to be accurate so early in pregnancy?
They don't. They only claim to be "greater than 99 percent accurate" in general, and then separately, they suggest that you can use them as early as the day you miss your period. According to the current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, in order to claim that a home pregnancy test is "greater than 99 percent accurate," the manufacturer only needs to demonstrate that the test performs as well in the lab as an existing test more than 99 percent of the time. Since today's home pregnancy tests are more sensitive than previous products, it's not surprising that they are able to maintain this claim, but it has nothing to do with a test's ability to detect pregnancy at the time of a missed period.

Answer 5

Yes it was accurate for both my pregnancy's.... i took 2 at both times and they all came back saying im pregnant..but you should call a doctor or make an appt. to make sure...good luck..take care

Answer 6

a pregnancy test can sometimes give a false negative result, but if u have done one and it said positive then you are DEFINATELY pregnant

Answer 7

yes most pregnancy tests will be 99% or over acurate. there are factors that can make you get a false + or even skip your period.

Answer 8

no we went to a clinic 16 weeks ago for a aborition they said she wasnt pregnant now she is

Answer 9

its about 99.8 % effective... but it determines on when you take it and how how strong your preg hormones is