Can pregnancy be detected on the seventh day after sex?

For women who are planning to get pregnant, the most urgent thing they want to know is whether they have successfully become pregnant after having sex. But when can they test for pregnancy? In fact, many women are not clear. Recently, some women even asked, can they test for pregnancy on the seventh day after having sex? Now let me explain it to you ladies.

After a woman has sex, the sperm and egg will meet and fuse to form a sperm-egg combination. The sperm-egg combination will then return to the uterine cavity through the fallopian tubes for embryo implantation. Once the implantation is successful, it also indicates that the woman has successfully become pregnant. From this time on, the female hormones in the woman's body will change, and the embryonic trophoblast cells will begin to secrete hCG hormone. Therefore, hCG hormone is an important step in the initial diagnosis of whether a woman is pregnant, and hCG hormone will first appear in the blood.

Under normal circumstances, the process from the formation of sperm and egg to the implantation of the embryo in the uterine cavity takes about seven to ten days. Because each woman's physical condition is different, some women may need a few more days. To improve the accuracy of the test, it is best for women to have sex more than ten days before going to the hospital for a blood test. By testing the hcg content in the blood, you can know whether you are pregnant. If the hcg content is 10μg/L, it can be basically confirmed that you are pregnant.

In addition, hCG hormone will continue to be metabolized into the urine through the blood circulation system, so testing the urine can also determine whether you are pregnant, but the initial amount of hCG hormone in the urine is very small and it is not easy to be detected. It will gradually become apparent after at least fourteen days of intercourse. Therefore, you can go to the hospital for a routine urine test fourteen days after intercourse, or you can buy a pregnancy test stick to test your morning urine.