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Predicting Ovulation Using Saliva

A Review of the Ovulite Fertility Test

By Lyn Mettler

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But gathering the specimen is not as easy as it sounds. For one, you have to do it first thing in the morning before you've eaten anything (which, if you're anything like me, is difficult to remember as you're headed to the kitchen in your just-woken-up haze). Otherwise, the results are not accurate, and you will likely miss the estrogen if it is there.

I also found that getting the right amount of saliva on the slide is a slight problem. If you get too little, you're just not going to see much. So I tended to overdo it, but then it takes forever to dry (much longer than the seven to 10 minutes they tell you to allow before viewing the saliva). And you don't want to try to look at it before it's dry, because then it's running off the slide, messing up the sample (gross, I know). You're also not supposed to get air bubbles in the sample, a true feat. It may take you a few tries of depositing and then cleaning the lens to start over before you get it right.

In Comparison to Other Saliva Tests
On the outside, the Ovulite does not look much different from The Donna, another saliva-based product to test fertility. Both are about the size of a lipstick tube, both use a mini-microscope to allow you to view the saliva, and both come with a "trendy" and discreet carrying case.

Predicting Ovulation Using Saliva-A Review of the Ovulite Fertility TestBut, as I found after delving a little deeper, there are a number of differences that I think set Ovulite apart.


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