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Can having a urinary tract infection effect home pregnancy tests?


This may be kinda long but its really important, please help me.

Can having a urinary tract infection with white blood cells in your urine, or red i don't remember but its one of the two i'm pretty sure its white blood cells tho. Well can having that effect home pregnancy tests? Cuz I took like 4 hpts and they all came out negative but I'm having symptoms such as, sore breats, fatigue, mood swings, urinating frequent urination, cramps, high body temp ( 98.8 to 99.6), congestion, forgetfulness and nausia. if i am i would be 6 weeks and 4 days, and I'm about 3 weeks late. I took a blood test on monday and i'm waiting for the results but what if it comes out negative? could i still be pregnant if it comes out negative? I'm trying to concieve, and my partner and I only had sex one day last month and it was on March 18th and my last period was March 12th. So could I be pregnant?????? Please help me I'm really anxious to find out if i am or not and I need your honest opionins. Thank you sooo much. :)

Thank you so much Miss_Thang30, thats the exact answer i was looking for. :) I would give you best answer but I'm not on level 2 yet

No. White blood cells won't do anything to a HPT.

An HPT works by measuring HcG hormones in your urine or blood.

ETA:
I had a UTI when I tested. My test came back positive 1 day before my missed period. I wasn't on any meds for the UTI yet.

No matter what type of blood cells are in your urine, they will not effect a pregnancy test, even with a urinary tract infection if you were pregnant your urine would have hcg in it which would give you a positive, if you were far enough alon.

I just read your first line.
But no. UT infections cant effect it.
Ptest are looking for hcg.
Which is ONLY produced during pregnancy

nope

I beg to differ with the other answers respectivly. When I first thought I could be pregnant with my son I tested and tested and they were all negative, couple weeks later I'm still testing and start to get the symptoms of a UTI but still negative now usually I can use home remedies and fight off the infection but this time was bad so I went to the doctor and he gave me a UTI test and it showed that I did have one and have had it for a while, I explained to him while I was there that I wasn't having a period anyways I got my meds and eventually the UTI cleared up and then finally I got a positive. I went back to the doctor and he explained to me that in early pregnancy the UTI can knock the HCG hormone out of the way and give you a false reading. Now that may be something that rarely happens but I know for a face that my infection did give me negative results when they were positive.

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