For Your Health: Home Testing Kits for STDS, AIDS, Drugs
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A growing number of Americans are using home medical test kits in their homes to diagnose or monitor certain health conditions such as STDs or AIDS
There are home test kits for STDs, home testing kits for AIDS, home testing kits for high cholesterol and many other other ailments.
Some home test kits can even detect drug use.
Home medial test kits are considered to be medical devices.
Like all medical devices, home medical test kits provide potential benefits, but they also pose potential risks.
It is important to realize that do-it-yourself home medical tests are not a replacement for professional health care.
Home medical kits for self-testing of AIDS, or home medical self-testing kits for STDs are best used when they are part of a comprehensive program that is supervised by a doctor or other health care professional.
Some companies advertise and sell home STD test kits and home AIDStest kits over the Internet and/or by mail order.
There is a risk that the results may not be 100% accurate.
Faulty results are more likely to occur if all of the directions for storing and using the test are not followed.
There is also a significant chance that people may interpret home medical test results incorrectly.
Buy the home test medical kit from a reliable source.
If you are uncertain, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice.