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What could cause a pregnancy test to give a false positive?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Big cause: is letting it sit out and reading it much later than it should have been read.

Dr Machanic and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/12/2017

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