How Many Hours to Urinate Before a Pregnancy Test? Midwife's Guide
Introduction
How many hours should you urinate before a pregnancy test?: this is a question you will surely have asked yourself if, in the last few days, you have experienced some of the most reliable symptoms of sweet waiting .
To provide you with all the answers you are looking for, I have created this content, where you can discover both how many hours not to pee before the pregnancy test, and other valuable information for your sweet wait.
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How many hours without urinating before a pregnancy test?
In women who have a substantially regular cycle - that is, with menstrual flow that, more or less, occurs every four weeks - the pregnancy test, to provide a reliable result, can be performed as early as the first day of delay .
Attention: we are talking about the urine test (not the blood test, which allows the detection of the pregnancy hormone in the bloodstream as early as the 10th - 11th day after conception), which can be of the following sub-types:
- Home test , i.e. the test, which can be performed at home, which simply detects the presence of beta HCG hormone in the urine without providing dosages;
- laboratory test , a situation in which the urine sample is analyzed by specialized technicians able to detect the precise dosage of the aforementioned hormone.
In both cases, even though the devices and technologies available today are characterized by a high degree of sensitivity, the advice is to retain urine as much as possible.
The ideal time, due to the highest concentration of the hormone, is the first urine of the morning.
For the sake of accuracy, I remind you that, after a miscarriage or a voluntary interruption of pregnancy, the body takes about 9 weeks to eliminate the beta HCG hormone.
Any test with a positive result performed during this period of time should therefore be considered unreliable and it is therefore advisable to contact your trusted gynecologist promptly.
