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Fertility experts recommend wine not fertility tests

Experts have told couples trying to have children to forget buying fertility testing kits and spend the money on a romantic meal out and a good bottle of wine instead.

In recent years sales of the tests have soared as more people delay having children, they are meant to measure follicle stimulating hormones.

But Dr Simon Fishel, of the CARE Fertility Centre in Nottingham said the tests - which cost £200 each - are almost useless to assessing how many eggs a woman has left and quality of the ovaries.

“Failing that they should have a romantic meal out and a good bottle of wine. The kits can make couples unnecessarily worried or misguided into believing everything is OK," he added.

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