7 Reasons Your Pregnancy Test Gave A False | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Pregnancy tests hold a lot of weight. With one positive test, your entire life will change. But what about when a test comes back falsely-positive? A false-positive test result only happens less than 1% of the time, but when it does, it can make the following days or weeks confusing before you realize you’re not actually pregnant.

So what actually causes a false-positive test and how do you decrease the chances of it happening to you? We’ll cover the top reasons for false-positive pregnancy tests below, but if you’d like to learn more about how tests work, click here. [1]

In some cases, tests offer a false result. But, in other cases, they detect the presence of an embryo, even if the pregnancy is not viable. For the first five points below, we’ll cover false results where the test detects elevated hCG (the pregnancy hormone) and indicates a pregnancy ...