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How do home pregnancy tests work? where you urinate on the stick. how is it able to determine if you're pregnant from your urine?
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Preg test: It detects the pregnancy hormone hcg. However, it may not detect low levels of this hormone very well, so you should have a confirmatory blood beta HCG level in your doctors office.
Answered 9/28/2016
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