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Consumers are becoming more health conscious by taking control of their health and understanding the importance of early detection and treatment.  Home Diagnostic Tests are used to detect different medical conditions so you can take immediate action and get the medical treatment needed.

 

 Some diagnostic testing kits that are available are:

 

-Pregnancy Tests	-Ovulation Predictor Tests	-Male Infertility Tests
-Urinary Tract Infection Tests	-Cholesterol Tests	-HIV Tests
-Hepatitis C Tests	-Fecal Occult Blood Tests	-Skin Growth Tests
-Vision Tests	-Drug Abuse Tests	-Menopause Tests
-Vaginal pH Tests	-Prothrombin Time Tests	-Paternity Tests
-Stomach Ulcers Tests	-Prostate Tests	-Drug Detection Tests
-Alcohol Blood Level Tests	-Breast Self Examination Tests	-Blood Pressure Monitors
-Blood Glucose Monitors

 

 

Home Diagnostic Testing Kits are required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be simple enough for an average consumer to use at home.  The benefits of using Home Diagnostic Testing Kits are the facts that they're quite often less expensive and less time consuming than it is to make your doctors visit.  Some of these kits also provide speedy results.  They give you confidentiality because its done all in the privacy of your own home.  But, with all this being said, home test kits are meant be an adjunct to doctor visits and are not meant to be replacements for them.

 

 

The FDA classifies two categories of Home Diagnostic Testing Kits.  These two types are Test Kits and Collection Kits.  Test Kits are used when a consumer collects the sample, performs the test, and reads the results.  Collection Kits are kits where the consumer collects the sample, mails it to a laboratory, and obtains the results via telephone.  The preference will depend on user preference and the type of test they are using.

 

Although Home Diagnostic Testing Kits are easy and convenient, please don't forget that these tests are designed to help identify certain conditions and are not meant to replace routine physician examinations.