Well before the creation of the clear blue ovulation test kits, women and their doctors used a very trying way to detect evidence of ovulation. A woman had to take her basal temperature every morning. A rise in temperature would indicate a surge in the LH level. The need for daily recording of the woman’s temperature demanded the use of the older thermometers, those that contained mercury. Today, women no longer rely on their temperature for proof that they have indeed ovulated. Today women seldom use mercury thermometers, and they put great faith in the results offered by the clear blue ovulation test kits.
When a woman buys one of the clear blue ovulation test kits, she often dreams about running to her husband, and showing him the results revealed by that purchased kit. With that vision dancing around in her head, that same woman does not want a kit that will give her a false positive result. For that reason, she expects to have at her disposal one of the best ovulation predictor kits.
A growing number of childless couples count to a high degree on the accuracy of the clear blue ovulation test kits. Those same couples thus need to understand the hormonal changes that preface the event known as ovulation. The cyclic changes that lead to ovulation begin with the careful monitoring of the hormone levels in the bloodstream.
The hypothalamus monitors the hormone level in the blood of both men and women. When the hypothalamus detects evidence that the body needs a specific hormone, it calls for production of that hormone. If the hypothalamus wants the reproductive organs in a woman’s body to work towards ovulation, the hypothalamus produces two chemicals called “releasing factors.”
One of those chemicals is the follicular stimulating hormone (FSH) releasing factor; the other chemical is the luteinizing hormone (LH) releasing factor. Both of those factors send a signal to the pituitary gland. Those factors stimulate the production of FSH and LH.
The FSH and LH produced by the pituitary gland travels to the woman’s reproductive system. Those hormones stimulate the production of estrogen and the development of at least one of the woman’s eggs. The estrogen in turn calls for a rise in the level of LH coming from the pituitary gland. That rise in the LH level comes 24 to 36 hours before release of the developed egg cell.
The release of the developed egg cell is called ovulation. A woman in possession of one of the clear blue ovulation test kits hopes to detect evidence that she has experienced a natural ovulation. She wants to let her husband know that one of her eggs has begun its journey down one of her fallopian tubes.
The designers of the clear blue ovulation test kits have arrived at a very clever way to offer evidence of a positive test result. The test stick window shows a happy face, if the test results indicate that ovulation has indeed taken place. The kit makers know that the wife who can show her husband that smiling face will undoubtedly plan to enjoy some lovemaking that night.
The kit lets the woman know when she is most likely to become fertile, following a night of lovemaking. The couple that desires children should plan its lovemaking according to the features (or lack of features) on the circle in the window of the test kit stick.