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What is trace in urine during pregnancy?
There is a hormone that can be traced in your urine when you are pregnant, and that is called the HCG hormone. Advanced pregnancy tests can detect this hormone & what percentage of the HCG hormone that is in your urine.
Can you produce HCG in urine if you are not pregnant?
Yes. HCG levels between 0-5 are common in non-pregnant women and are considered to be normal.
Why do women test their urine to see if they are pregnant?
A woman's body secretes a hormone while pregnant which can usually be detected on a home pregnancy test a week or two after implantation (a woman's body doesn't know it's pregnant until implantation and therefore doesn't secete the hormone until that happens) of the fertilized egg (which is about a week after conception). The hormone is in the blood stream which is filtered by the kidneys which create urine. Therefore the hormone can be detected in urine.
When Antidiuretic hormone is present urine concentration equals interstitial fluid concentration?
True
What does it mean when a doctor says your hormone levels indicate that you're pregnant?
one hormone that is a good indicator of pregnancy is hCG which stands for human chorionic gonadotropin. it is only present if the woman is few weeks or maybe days pregnant. ask the doctor what hormone is he/she particularly referring to. as i know it, pregnancy test kits that can be bought in pharmacies measure the amount of hCG in the urine. --thoughtfulobserver
How do you know about pregnancy in urine test in lab?
When a human female is pregnant, she starts to generate a hormone called hCG (human choriogonadotropin). It is specific to a pregnant female as it is made in the placenta, and it is excreted in the urine. Most labs will run an hCG test on all urine samples as part of the standard urinalysis.
Last period was February 22nd no period yet and two negative Home Pregnancy Tests could you still be pregnant?
Yes you could still be pregnant because the date you gave would only just make you about 4 and half weeks pregnant. Sometimes in very early pregnancy you don't have enough of the HCG hormone present in your urine to show up on a test, i would give it another week then do another test by then you should get a real result. Also do the test with your first urine of the day as this will have the most HCG hormone present.
What is galli-mainini test?
It is a "classic" test to determine if someone is pregnant or not. It is done by injecting subcutaneously the woman's urine to the frog, and after few hours, checking the frog's own urine. If the forg's urine contain sperms, the woman is pregnant. It is because the pregnant woman's urine contain hCG, a hormone that is made by placenta.
Is it possible to have several positive urine test and not be pregnant or does it mean you possibly were?
Having several positive urine tests means your pregnant. The test won't come back positive if you don't have the hormone in your system.
How did Premarin get its name?
Premarin is short for: pregnant mare's urine. It consists of estrogen isolated from mare's urine and is used for hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.
If you take a pregnecy text and its says your pregnant does it mean your actually pregnant?
In most of the cases. Not in 100 % cases. This test look for H.C.G. hormone in the urine. This hormone is usually produced by placenta. But there may be a tumor producing this hormone. You have to go for ultrasound examination for confirmation of the pregnancy.
What carbohydrate present in a pregnant women urine?
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)
