No more peeing on a stick: New ovulation kit uses saliva to determine when a woman is fertile

• Device measures excess estrogen and salt levels present in traces of women’s saliva which surges when they're most fertile

By Anna Hodgekiss

Released: 14:42 GMT, 22 October 2012

As opposed to the traditional urine test, the brand new package measures amounts of excess estrogen and salt present in traces of saliva

An innovative new ovulation package that utilizes saliva - as opposed to a urine sample - continues to be released within the United kingdom.

Traditional fertility predictor kits use urine to check for a rise in lutenising hormone (LH) which happens a couple of days before ovulation.

However the new Maybe Baby tester, formed just like a lipstick, states measure excess estrogen and salt levels present in traces of women’s saliva which surges when they're most fertile.

The maker claims the ?40 saliva test is 98 percent accurate and may finish the standard and, under dignified 'pee-on-a-stick’ method.

We've got the technology it uses is dependant on research in the College of Turin, Italia. Researchers there learned that when excess estrogen exists in dried saliva, it forms a design resembling fern leaves - which may be clearly seen within microscope. More...

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Using the new battery-powered saliva package, women spit on, or lick, a small microscopic lens before putting the stick in its container.

After 10-fifteen minutes, the consumer supports the multiple-use device as much as one eye and presses a control button to activate an easy.

When the lens shows pebbles and dots then your lady isn't considered to become fertile. But when small fern leaves show up on the lens, the lady is thought to possess 2 or 3 days until ovulation.

Women spit on, or lick, a small microscopic lens before putting the stick in its container. After 10-fifteen minutes the unit signifies whether a lady is fertile or otherwise

A complete pattern of fern leaves around the lens means the lady is ovulation at that time.

Lyn McGoohan, a speaker for Maybe Baby, stated: The main one factor that many people don’t understand is the fact that right before ovulation is the greatest here we are at women to try and conceive.

'Because you should use the package every single day, women can chart their cycle. That's vital because it’s not black and whitened.

'Women, and that i include myself, have no clue how little they are fully aware regarding their fertility cycle.

'If you utilize it every single day then you’re not likely to miss when you’re ovulation.'

But fertility experts cautioned that saliva tests have past being hard to rely on.

Jane Dark night, Fertility Nurse Specialist in the Zita West Clinic stated: 'A study of saliva testing products released within the Lancet discovered that 8/10 publish-menopause ladies and all 10 males examined positive for ovulation!

'They came to the conclusion the saliva test is hard to rely on for predicting the fertile some time and its use ought to be frustrated.'

The brand new tester is going to be obtainable in greater than 500 Lloyds Pharmacy stores over the United kingdom at the beginning of November. It's presently available for sale on rowlandspharmacy.co.united kingdom.