How accurate is a pregnancy test if the urine stream isn for 5 seconds?
The reason you have to hold it in the urine stream 5 seconds is to make sure there is enough urine on it. It doesn’t affect the accuracy of the test as long as the control line shows up. That shows that there was enough urine to make sure it soaked past the strip that detects the pregnancy hormone in it. So if it has 2 lines you’re preggo and if it has one line (the control line) you are not. If the control line didn’t show up then you know there wasn’t enough urine on the stick and you have to try another test.
