My friend and I have been in an ongoing debate. I began a question asking if a pregnant woman pees in a pool that a home pregnancy test would reveal it if dipped in the pool water. Everyone responded saying no, too much water, too diluted. So, I then asked if you peed in a bathtub filled with water would it show. Again, everyone said too diluted. However, I had one taker on my experiment and she peed into a glass about 1/4 full then filled the rest with water. She said it was negative but, she was 9 months pregnant. I would like to know if I can have any other volunteers to test out the true accuracy of home pregnancy tests and see if it can detect a small presence of the hormone that it is seeking. Thank you to all volunteers. I would like to talk to my volunteer yesterday if she could somehow respond with her IM. Thanks again.
2007-01-16 02:41:10 · 1 answers · asked by justcurious 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
There is one very important factor you are not considering--chlorine kills hcg and regular tap water almost always contains chlorine as does pool water. To get truely accurate results you would need to use distilled water.
2007-01-16 02:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋