DH and I have just ordered home testing kits for us - we are pretty sure what we have is just a cold but yesterday I had awful fever symptoms and couldn’t keep my eyes open I felt so ill, and DH has a slight cough. I think it’s very unlikely to be COVID but want to be responsible.
Our twins (4YO) have no symptoms yet - they have runny noses but that’s par for the course now they’ve been back at nursery. No high temps or anything else suspect.
However, if they do show symptoms I have no idea how we would test them. They panic with me taking their temperature by any means - one had a procedure under GA a while ago to remove things he’d put in his ears as no one could do it while he was awake, and they had to sedate him just to be able to take him blood pressure and temperature.
There is no physical way I or anyone else could swab them. They are non verbal and don’t understand words so I can’t explain it to them, they don’t understand social stories either yet.
If we physically cannot test and they show symptoms can we just isolate them for 14 days from when symptoms start? Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do?
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Panicking about possibly having to test autistic twins- any ideas?
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SinkGirl · 25/10/2020 09:47
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