HOW TO DO PREGNANCY TEST WITH SALT OR WHITE TOOTHPASTE AT HOME. ARE THEY RELIABLE?
Sometimes you just want to do a quick pregnacy test at the comfort of your home. For sexually active women, they crave privacy or confidentiality when finding out if they are pregnant, hence, they do these crude and not scientifically backed PT test before going to the lab or ultrasound room to confirm their findings. Some ladies claim it gives them peace of mind before the confirmatory test is done.
Well if you are one of these ladies, then you need to know how to do a PT test with salt and white toothpaste below….
SALT PREGNANCY TEST is considered the most effective and easiest method of testing pregnancy by women who suspect the
**INGREDIENTS**
1) Early morning urine
2) Salt
**PREPARATIONS**
1) Take a neat and clean plastic or small glass
2) Collect the fresh sample of first urine in the morning
3) Add a pinch or two salt to it
4) Check if urine forms creamy white substance like cheese
5) Milk cheese like substance confirms PREGNANCY
6) If nothing happens, it shows you are not pregnant
N:B No PREGNANCY TEST is 100% accurate.
Ultimately you may be required to take a blood test, which will tell you the exact level of HCG hormone in your body
FOR PREGNANCY TEST USING WHITE TOOTHPASTE
This is another super easy homemade pregnancy test that can be done in a short time.
Things Required for the Test
White Toothpaste
Container
Early morning Urine
Steps involved in the test/Directions
Take 2 tablespoons of toothpaste in a container
Put some urine on same and wait
How to read the results? Interpretation
If the color of the toothpaste changes to a bluish hue then its confirmed that you are pregnant.
If it does not change color then you are not pregnant. So you can easily do homemade pregnancy test with toothpaste.
Pre- Requisite for the Test
The toothpaste needs to/must be white in color for the test results to be accurate
Pregnancy scan/ultrasound scan is the confirmatory test for pregnacy. Even urine or serum HCG test does not confirm pregnancy.
My takeaway
Doing pregnanvy test with salt and urine or white toothpaste and urine are not scientifically proven. Eventhough popular opinion believe it to work and very cheap, i as a doctor personally do not recommend it. See a doctor of you suspect you are pregnant or planning to conceive. Thank you.
