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| Female Infertility Tests |  Keeping a record of basal body temperatures can be helpful in establishing whether or not a woman ovulates. First of all, after waking up the women takes her temperature with special thermometers. Before ovulation, morning oral temperatures usually range from 97.0 degrees to 97.5 degrees F. After ovulation, because of the effect of increased levels of progesterone, morning temperatures are usually 93.0 degrees F. An accurately recorded temperature chart that shows low temperatures in the early part of the menstrual cycle and higher temperatures for the last fourteen days is presumptive evidence that ovulation has occurred.
Another test to help determine if ovulation is occurring is an eudiometrical biopsy. Usually this test performed on the first day of the period or in the week before a period is expected. A speculum is inserted into the vagina and the cervix is grasped with an instrument called a tenaculum, which may cause a slight pinching sensation. After that a small, thin instrument inserts into the uterine cavity to take the biopsy. The removed tissue sends to a laboratory to be examined microscopically. With help of this test we can identify other causes of infertility. But this test has the theoretical risk of interrupting an early pregnancy. That is why if there is any chance that the patient may be pregnant, it should not be done.
Measurement of blood and urinary hormone levels can help to give evidence whether or not a woman is ovulating. For example, because progesterone levels in the blood rise after ovulation, a blood test taken after ovulation will reflect this. However, many authorities still consider the eudiometrical biopsy the most accurate proof that ovulation has occurred.
Thanks to ovulation test kits that are easy to use at home. By measuring the amount of the eternizing hormone in her urine each day beginning with the tenth day of her menstrual cycle. The woman will find out a sudden important increase in the LH hormone by a change in the color of the testing paper. This change happens twenty-four hours before ovulation. Intercourse should take place on the day of the color change and the next day to ensure maximum probability of conception. They are also available through a doctor.
There is also a different kind of testing called serologic and cultures testing. Cervical mucus can be cultured for gonorrhea, chlamydeous and other infectious agents.
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