All about tests for ovulation. How to properly do an ovulation test?

This article contains recommendations for using ovulation tests and their main types

An ovulation test is a fairly accurate method for determining ovulation, but only if it is used correctly.

Instructions for the ovulation test

Ovulation tests are different, but the principle of their operation is the same, which means that the instructions in general are similar.

General recommendations:

• Keep locked up. Print out the test just before use
instagram viewer
• Check expiration date
• Do not use first morning urine
• Do not use one test several times
• Do not use one test several times
• Study the order of test use to avoid false results

How to use:

• The urine collected from 10ambefore 8 pm
• 2 hours before the test, reduce the amount of fluid consumed
• If you have a classic test strip, then lower it vertically in the testThe bone is in the urine until the line indicated on it. Hold for 5 seconds. Place the test on a flat and dry surface. After 10 minutes, evaluate the result of
• You should definitely see the control strip. This will say about a properly conducted test
• Next to the control you will see the second strip: weak or bright. The result bar will then talk about the positive outcome of the test when it is the same brightness or brighter than the control
• . This bar indicates that ovulation will occur within 24 hours.
• If you bought an electronic test, read more about it in section 6 "Electronictest for ovulation »

IMPORTANT: Test daily from a certain day and do until you see the desired result.

How does the ovulation test work?

• Shortly before ovulation, the body begins to produce luteinizing hormone. Just this hormone is determined by the ovulation test
• . If the hormone starts to be produced in the body, then ovulation is about to come, so the test will show the strip is brighter than
• . Accordingly, if there is no hormone, then the strip of the result is brighter than the control strip will not become

When it is better to doovulation test?

Manufacturers recommend to conduct the test in the period of time from 10.00 to 20.00.

The day in which you should start doing testing depends on your menstrual cycle. Read more in the section "How to Calculate the Ovulation Cycle" of the article. When does a woman have ovulation? How to determine ovulation at basal temperature?

Test for ovulation in the morning and in the evening

The test for ovulation can be done in the morning and in the evening, if by your calculations or well-being ovulation should be about to come( see the article When does an ovulation occur? How to determine ovulation at basal temperature?).

So im way, in the morning you can see a weak strip, and in the evening already a bright positive result.

Ovulation multi-test for ovulation

A reusable ovulation test is a kit:

• USB device
• 20( usually) test strips

The test is both a test for ovulation, and pregnancy at the same time, as it determines the level of hCG and luteinizing hormone.

Test is a kind of USB-flash drive, in which a test strip is inserted. The display shows the hCG and luteinizing hormone. Next, the device can be connected to a computer to obtain statistics about your tests( track the dynamics).

There are a lot of such tests and it's rather difficult to find them.

Electronic ovulation test

Electronic tests for ovulation by manufacturers are positioned as the most accurate, namely accuracy of 99%.Tests show 2 most successful for conception of the day.

The test is done with a test strip, which is inserted into a cassette for reading information. Before use, carefully read the instructions. It may differ from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Video about the use of such tests, see below.

Video: Learn how to use the Digital Ovulation Test

Can an ovulation test show pregnancy?

• The reagent to which the ovulation test is impregnated reacts to luteinizing hormone. After the occurred ovulation, the hormone ceases to be produced in such quantities, even in the case of pregnancy.
• Pregnancy also carries a high level of hCG.Pregnancy tests are just soaked with reagents that react to this hormone
• . The ovulation test with such reagents is not impregnated, which means it can not be a proof of pregnancy.
• If you, being pregnant, did an ovulation test and showed a positive result, thenthis is definitely not related to pregnancy. There are other causes of false positive tests

Positive test for ovulation

A positive test for ovulation on simple test strips will be when next to the control strip you will see the same bright or brighter strip of result.

Electronic tests show in the window a certain icon, indicating the onset of ovulation in the next 24 hours. An example might be the "Smile" icon in the Clearblue test.

Sometimes the test may show a false positive result:

• If you did not urinate for a long time before the test, as the concentration of the hormone in the urine will be unreasonably increased. Therefore, do not do the test using the first morning urine
• If the hormonal background is broken. Hormonal failure in the body always gives an unpredictable result not only in the ovulation test, but also in measuring the basal temperature, and in the presence of discharge and other signs of ovulation
• . If you made the angle of hCG
• If you took hormonal drugs, including contraceptives
• Kidney disease
• change of power system

Weak strip on ovulation test

A weak strip is not a positive result. This is due to the fact that luteinizing hormone in small amounts can be produced by the body at any time of the cycle. And only for 24-48 hours before ovulation, it is thrown out in huge quantities. The test is reacted to this ejection, showing a bright strip.

Ovulation Test for Pregnancy

An ovulation test for pregnancy should not show a positive result. For more details see above.

Why is the ovulation test always negative?

Reasons for negative tests:

• Drinking plenty of fluids before testing. This is because the liquid reduces the concentration of the hormone in the urine, so it may not respond
• Poor tests
• Incorrect use of the test
• Anovulation

Anovulation is a condition where ovulation does not occur. Anovulation occurs in two cases:

• Health problems. Then you should contact an experienced gynecologist for the treatment of
• . The period of pregnancy, breastfeeding, menopause

. The symptoms in which the should go to the physician, and not look for a reason as tests:

• Allocations with monthly too scanty or too abundant
• Intendedthe period of ovulation is not abundant discharge
• Basal temperature measurements show constant jumps or a steady low temperature throughout the cycle( more than 2 consecutive months)

Polio ovulation testitelny: when conception?

The test shows a positive result when the luteinizing hormone is released into the blood. This occurs on average 24 hours before ovulation.

Therefore, conception should occur within the next few hours after receiving a positive test result for ovulation.

Spermatozoa will enter the abdominal cavity and wait for the egg to exit, as they live on average 3-4 days.

Follow the instructions for applying ovulation tests and then this method will be very accurate for determining ovulation.

Video: Ovulation Test