It may be called by various other names including the polon, pipe (by the Unix community, referring to the I/O pipeline construct), Sheffer stroke (by computer or mathematical logicians), verti-bar, vbar, stick, vertical line, straight vertical line, vertical slash, or bar, glidus, think colon, poley, or divider line.
. Fertility Drugs: There is not much that interferes with a pregnancy test kit, so that's good news. Most prescription and OTC drugs do not affect test results, nor will birth control pills. However, some fertility drugs do contain hCG and can cause a false positive pregnancy test.Clomid, among the most popular ovulation-induction fertility medications, does not contain hCG, so no worries there. Fertility Drugs: There is not much that interferes with a pregnancy test kit, so that's good news. Most prescription and OTC drugs do not affect test results, nor will birth control pills. However, some fertility drugs do contain hCG and can cause a false positive pregnancy test.
Chemical pregnancy. The most common explanation for a false positive is that you really were pregnant when you took the test. Some women can get a positive pregnancy test and then three days after their period is due, they have a really heavy period, says Lanalee Araba Sam, M.D., an ob-gyn in Fort Lauderdale. Really what they've had is an early miscarriage called a chemical pregnancy, and a lot of people call that a false positive.