Verificación De Embarazo Firmada De Manera Sencilla

Sign pregnancy verification

hey everyone its air thread sterner sorry and calm and today I want to show you how to take or administer a pregnancy test so what does this test measure well it's going to look for a hormone in your urine called HCG and HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin which is why we call it HCG and this is a hormone produced by the placenta so if this hormone is present in your urine it's possibly saying that during your cycle you release an egg a sperm fertilize the egg the egg traveled down and planted itself in the uterus and you are growing a baby so when should you take a pregnancy test well generally speaking you want to wait until you have missed your period by there are some tests on the market that say they can detect it a little bit earlier but always just read the instructions of whatever type of test you are using now with these tests they will display results differently depending on the brand some will display it electronically others you will have to manually read it like with this one and generally speaking as well whenever you want to take the pregnancy test is usually in the morning time whenever your urine is highly concentrated with the HCG what supplies will you need to take a pregnancy test well of course we'll need the pregnancy test you'll need a cup to catch your urine in you'll need a timer either a watch or your phone and if you're in a clinical setting you'll need a pair of gloves now to actually take the test what you want to do is you want to wash your hands then collect the urine specimen by peeing in a cup and then wash your hands again so we've collected a urine specimen and I've put on my gloves but before we actually do the test let me explain this test to you whenever you do a pregnancy test always look at the test itself because here this area where this arrows pointing is where we're going to drop the urine in and this particular test requires three drops of urine and then over here you see a C and a T the C is the control area and you will definitely get a line here and this is a good thing because this is telling you that the test works and that you added enough urine the tea part is the test part and if it is positive you do have HCG in your urine a line will pop up here now the darkness of the line how fast it pops up will vary from person to person depending on how far along you are in your pregnancy so read the manufacturer's results for how long you need to wait before you read the test results now we're going to do the test and what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a test that is positive versus a test that is negative so you can see the differences here we have our droppers and they contain our urine sample we use the droppers that came with the pregnancy test to withdraw the urine in this top dropper we have urine that contains HCG and how I know that is because it's my urine and I'm pregnant this bottom dropper contains urine that does not have HCG in it it comes from my husband so he shouldn't have HCG in his urine so what we're gonna do is we're gonna add three drops of urine to each test so we'll add to this top one this is the urine that has the HCG so one two three and then we'll drop here one two three and we're gonna let that go for three minutes cuz for this particular test they say to wait three minutes to read the results but don't read the results after five minutes because they won't be valid you so it's been three minutes now we're going to interpret our results so as you can see here in these tests we have a line in both of the control areas this tells us we added enough urine and that this test is working however in this pregnancy test here on the top there is a line in the test area so it's positive which tells us that it detected HCG in the urine however here on the bottom this bottom pregnancy test there is no line in this test area so it is negative it tells us that it did not detect HCG in that urine sample so what do you do if you get positive results well what you want to do is call your doctor your OBGYN family doctor whoever you go to tell them that you got a positive home pregnancy test and they'll have you come in they'll confirm it and then start with prenatal labs but let's say that you get a negative result but you still haven't had your period you don't really know what's going on what you want to do is you want to wait a little bit and retest maybe you test it a little bit earlier or let's say it's still negative and you're not getting a positive result you want to call your doctor who can further investigate it okay so that wraps up this demonstration on how to take a pregnancy test now be sure to check out my other nursing skills videos and our maternity review lectures