False Pregnancy Test

Most pregnancy tests (home pregnancy tests) determine pregnancy through the detection of the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) in a woman’s urine. Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone which is produced early in pregnancy by the placenta in great volume (hormone released by developing embryos). HCG detection in the urine and serum is the basis for most of pregnancy tests. Normally most variants of the home pregnancy test cannot be considered accurate until taken on the date or a few days after a missed period.
Sometimes home pregnancy test can yield false positive results for several reasons. Even a pregnancy test performed on blood can show a false positive under certain circumstances. In most cases we could have false negative pregnancy test. False positive pregnancy tests are rare, but they do occur.
Discover all possible causes for false positive and false negative pregnancy tests.