can drinking too much water mess up pregnancy test?
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Drinking water—or any fluids—can, in fact, affect the results of an at-home urine pregnancy test, especially when taken very early in the pregnancy. When your urine becomes diluted by drinking lots of fluids, it takes on a pale yellow or clear color, and the urine concentration of hCG becomes lower.
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You can recreate first-morning urine for a pregnancy test by not using the bathroom for at least four hours. You should also not drink more than you normally would. This is a pretty common mistake, thinking that you can simply drink more to get more urine.
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Your test will still be valid if it's the afternoon or you've already had water, but first morning urine will result in a stronger results line. The stronger the line, the more accurate the test results.
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Home pregnancy tests You'll either urinate on a pregnancy dipstick, or urinate in a cup and then put the dipstick in the urine. You'll wait a few minutes for the results. At-home pregnancy tests claim to be about 99 percent accurate. But they can sometimes result in a false positive or a false negative.
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There is no special preparation for the ultrasound test. Some doctors require you to drink 4-6 glasses of water before the test, so your bladder is full. This will help the doctor view the baby better on the ultrasound.
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Before Your Exam Drink 32 ounces (four glasses) of water one hour before your examination time. You can go to the bathroom to relieve yourself, as long as you keep drinking water. If you are also having an ultrasound abdomen, please do not eat or drink for 8 hours before your exam. Water and medications are okay.
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Accuracy. As with urine/home pregnancy tests, it is possible to end up with false results (both negative and positive) from a blood pregnancy test.
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Low amniotic fluid can lead to birth defects and even miscarriage. We recommend drinking at least eight cups of water every day.
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Sometimes you can get a false negative on your pregnancy test – meaning you're pregnant, but the test says otherwise. On the flipside, you can miss your period, but you're not pregnant.
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If you're bleeding vaginally or are on your period, you can still take a pregnancy test without affecting the result. This is because home pregnancy tests are designed to detect the levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG, also known as the pregnancy hormone) in your urine.
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Drink 32 ounces (four glasses) of water one hour before your examination time. You can go to the bathroom to relieve yourself, as long as you keep drinking water. If you are also having an ultrasound abdomen, please do not eat or drink for 8 hours before your exam. Water and medications are okay.
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Just keep it consistent, and try not to drink a lot of water (or any other liquid) right before you test. If you do, it will dilute your urine, and your results may not be accurate.
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"Typically, we advise 'holding your urine' for about four hours before collecting a urine sample," suggests Early Pregnancy Tests. Frequent urination can prevent a build-up in the concentration of HCG in your urine sample, meaning it's possible to receive a false negative result.
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Too much fluid: You can dilute your urine sample if you are urinating too frequently or drinking too many liquids—this is why first-morning urine samples are recommended for pregnancy testing. ... This chemical pregnancy creates a faint positive line on a pregnancy test.
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Low amniotic fluid can lead to birth defects and even miscarriage. We recommend drinking at least eight cups of water every day. Try drinking two cups first thing in the morning before you do anything else.
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It's possible to drink too much water when you are pregnant, but it's not easy to do so. Morning sickness, acid reflux and tiny bladders usually prevent you from chugging too much water throughout the day.
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Another common reason for getting a false negative is not having enough hCG in the urine you test. Early on in pregnancy, you can dilute the hormone concentration in your urine if you drink a lot of water before testing. This is more likely to happen in very early pregnancy when you take the test later in the day.