Ovulation Test - the exact calculation? - How to use

How to use ovulation test

To properly use the ovulation test, you should carefully read the instructions. The first step is to determine the day of the menstrual cycle The days of the menstrual cycle: Four phases From which to begin to carry out tests. There are two types of tests: a jet and a simple test. For carrying out a simple test requires a test strip for five seconds in the lower container with the urine. Then the strip is removed and placed on a smooth dry surface. The test results are evaluated in ten minutes. To use the spray test (midstream), it should be kept under a stream of urine, after releasing from the cap during the same five seconds. It must ensure that urine got on the absorbing area, which is indicated by the arrow. Then, the cap should be put on again and put the test in a dry place. The result is evaluated in ten minutes.

It is important to remember that the ovulation test can be conducted at any time of the day, but preferably in the same period, the optimal time period is considered to be cut from ten in the morning until eight at night. Ovulation Test not conducted in the morning, i.e. not use the first urine for pregnancy testing. In addition, before testing is necessary to refrain from urinating at least four hours, and during the tests for ovulation to avoid excessive fluid intake. To be most effective (not to miss ovulation) doctors are advised to carry out tests for ovulation twice a day, ie, morning and evening.

Tests on saliva ovulation

In addition to the tests, which determine ovulation by the urine, and you can use the test to determine the release of the egg from the follicle burst of saliva. The mechanism of action of these tests is based on raising the level of estrogen (female sex hormones) before ovulation (about a day or three). The action of estrogens causes sodium retention and potassium in the body, respectively, the composition of saliva and its thickness is changed the day before ovulation. Change is that saliva crystallizes.

Test ovulation saliva is a small microscope slide on which you want to apply saliva and allow to dry. The slides were then placed in the microscope, and carefully considered. If the saliva dried up in the form of branches, fern, ie, has a number of branches, it speaks of an impending ovulation. Consequently, the next 24-72 hours are most favorable for conception.

To test showed the correct results when you use it you need to follow some rules:

• the test should be carried out in the morning before brushing teeth and eating breakfast;
• a drop of saliva should be small and should not contain air bubbles (difficult to assess the test);
• after examination under the microscope slide is washed with water or treated with alcohol.

The price of such a mini-microscope swaying in the range (in Russia) 1000-4000 rubles. Test ovulation saliva is very convenient, but it must be remembered that a number of diseases (dental caries, gingivitis, lesions of the digestive tract, ovarian dysfunction Ovarian dysfunction - a responsible attitude to health And smoking) ovulation test can give a false positive result. Also, not all women are able to correctly assess the results.

Reusable Ovulation Test

Reusable ovulation test, for example, is a test that determines ovulation saliva. But in essence, reusable ovulation test is nothing more than, as a portable device that can be carried in a purse or pocket. Examples of these tests included a specific set of strips (usually ten or twenty). Strips test for determining ovulation are inserted into the device, and it will evaluate the results that give an answer on the screen (the degree of fertility).

The main advantage of this test is that it shows not only the day of ovulation, but also determines the days in which fertilization is not excluded (for example, before ovulation Ovulation - How to determine as accurately as possible?   or for several days after ovulation).

Ovulation Test from Clearblue

Digital Ovulation Test Kliablu considered the most effective and user-friendly test. The test itself consists of seven jet test strips and has the following advantages:

• the result can be found in three minutes after the test;
• This test shows not only the date of ovulation and the two best days for conception (for 24-36 hours before ovulation), which increases the chances of getting pregnant;
• the effectiveness of the test Kliablu reaches 100%;
• the test is very convenient and easy to use;
• smiley face on the screen indicates the fertile days and ovulation.

How to use the digital ovulation test? Nothing complicated in the use of test no. After the package has been removed from the test strip, it should be placed in a so-called tool holder. For convenience, and the test strip and test holders are pink arrows that must match each other. Then, the screen must be the inscription "ready for testing." Thereafter, the device with the test strip should be held above the urine stream for five - to seven seconds or lower unit in a container of urine for fifteen seconds. After the procedure is necessary to put the device on a level, dry surface and remove excess urine. Three minutes later, the test results show. With a negative result on the screen is the following inscription: "there is no LH surge" and a positive result will be laughing face.

Ovulation Test: Results

To correctly interpret the results of tests on ovulation rate should be compared with the control dough strip which is located at the end of the test strip.

• Negative Ovulation Test

In this case, the intensity of the color control strip is pronounced than the color of the test strip. In some cases, the test strip can be omitted altogether. A negative result indicates that the level of luteinizing hormone is still insufficient, and there is no peak fertility, that is, the tests do not indicate ovulation.

• Positive tests for ovulation

The color intensity of the test band coincides with the color control and, in some cases even brighter. This suggests that luteinizing hormone peaked and ovulation should occur within the next 24-48 hours, which is the signal to start having sex.

But sometimes ovulation test: The result may be invalid. This is in violation of the rules of the test, the test was either corrupt or has expired and is an indication for the re-test in compliance with all conditions. In addition, the test results affected by taking certain medications (eg, luteinizing hormone and human chorionic gonadotropin), but treatment with clomiphene citrate (Clomid), which is administered to stimulate ovulation, does not affect the results of the test on ovulation. The only drug can extend the menstrual cycle.

Store used test ovulation meaningless result because (depending on the test) is evaluated for three - ten minutes, and after this time period the test strip or fade away.

The accuracy of the test Ovulation does not depend on its price, and subject to compliance with instructions. All tests for determining the effectiveness of ovulation have last from 90 to 100 percent.

Ovulation Test indicates pregnancy?

Test ovulation can not show pregnancy, because of its action mechanism is based on the determination of luteinizing hormone (LH), which is produced in the anterior pituitary and is responsible for the function of the ovaries. During pregnancy, the body increases levels of the hormone - progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology And luteinizing hormone is not produced. A pregnancy test detects the presence of human chorionic hormone (hCG), which forms the shell of the embryo. HCG and LH are two completely different hormones and the effect on ovulation test and pregnancy, respectively, are different.

According to some women, ovulation test allegedly showed a pregnancy. It can not be. So, the woman became pregnant before the expected ovulation, it is possible to shear ovulation in either direction (the reasons for this phenomenon are described above). Although the structure of their hCG and LH are similar, their effect is different.