To go out with a cough, sore throat and runny nose?

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The cough I’ve had for nearly two months. It’s intermittent but can go on for a while and knowing my luck will start in the queue for the supermarket!

The runny nose and sore throat is due to sinusitis from said flu like illness two months ago.

I need to get food in today. Don’t want to send teenagers as worried they’ll forget about touching stuff, social distancing.

I am well in myself.

AIBU?

Just because you have a preexisting cough doesn't mean you could't have picked up Covid-19 too. Let the teenagers do it.

I have had a cough for over a month.I have asthma and get hay fever. I self isolated due to someone being here working whose family have it. I am on Day 12. DH is now SI as well.We managed to get a Tesco slot for today. Couldn't believe it and text by BF as she has been busy getting shopping for her clients 70-94 and when she went to get hers yesterday she drove in and drove out as it was heaving.So we are both just waiting for it to come. You might be lucky to get a slot if you try at random times. We had no cows milk or bread for a couple of days. I still had oat milk. Now we are cock a hoop as we should have enough for several months if I can get yeast. Just need someone to drop off milk.

Failing that it is up to you. Teens being there are just as much chance but if you start coughing then I think a lot of people might be upset or swear at you. Is anyone else available? Our village has set up a group.

Some people can pick up the coronavirus yet show very few symptoms. The only way to know for sure that you haven’t been infected is to have a test. Any cough is a potential minefield of infection for others - your original cough may even be masking a far more serious condition. It would be extremely reckless to go out to a supermarket.....Make a list for your teens, they will rise to the challenge if you show them that you trust them.

I should have made it clear that I would have no problem with my teens doing a supermarket shop if we weren’t in the grip of an extremely contagious pandemic. They are not babied.

I prefer to go myself as I am much more alert to contamination risks than they are having had OCD since childhood .

Anyway I shall the take the good advice of a PP and do a sinus flush and throat gargle as well wear a mask.

Thanks.

Another 260 cases today.

Whomever goes to the shops (you or teens) should wash their hands really thoroughly before and after supermarket shop; don't touch your face anywhere; don't go near anyone in the store; wash your hands on return then wash your hands again when you unpack your shopping - would be my thoughts.

Hayfever and asthma, the hayfever means I have a tickly cough and runny nose first thing, piriton takes a while to kick in, it is a problem. Maybe I should make a sticker and put it on my jumper saying

"Its hayfever, sorry"

FGS your teens are far less likely to become ill than you are. Cant believe that you would do this. (Amused at the fact that you are alert to contamination risk!!!!, oh well thats ok then...............................)

So because of people like OP we are in the middle of this......

You should all be self isolating

Another one wondering why?

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Not everyone can stop coughing. Coughs often last 3 weeks or more and I get maybe 4/5 a year. I find it perplexing that anyone could fail to note the difference between an ongoing symptom, exacerbated symptoms or a new symptom tacked onto their old one. I appreciate I have to be ultra aware for my safety and survival but even so...

Be that as it may, the NHS would tell her it’s fine to go out as the answers to both questions are no: 1) is this a new and persistent cough and 2) does op have a fever. What she chooses to do with this is up to her.

One thing for sure, she definitely needs to be thinking about the state of her health before going out. However, telling me my comment is “incredibly irresponsible” when it comes straight from the NHS website is perplexing.

Of course you're babying them if you think they can't understand the advice about staying at a distance/contamination and do a successful shop. They lived with someone with OCD all their lives, fgs.

It's not just about you - you're going to scare people, pottering around in a mask, coughing. Why does your lack of trust in your children outweigh everything else?

@justasking111 the nasal wash out at night and first thing can help with the allergy along with an antihistamine spray. Sorry if I'm teaching a granny to suck eggs but it might help.

Missing the point AGAIN, @Mummyoflittledragon.

I know not everyone can stop coughing - but coughing people are MORE LIKELY to be spreading their saliva and mucus around, whatever the cause of their cough.

Bloody hell.

Missing the point AGAIN. I think the same of your comments.

Why on earth can't they be trusted to follow simple instructions? The supermarket workers won't let them mess about.

Yet you're still determined to go out and cough and splutter all over everyone. Lovely!

Well I went. Wore a mask. Didnt cough once! Very few people in there as I hoped. Observed the social distancing unlike the stupid woman who marched up right behind me without a mask saying we should go straight in despite people clearly queuing to go in slowly ahead of us.

Quite a few people wearing masks I was pleased to see.

I think we should all wearing masks, homemade will do. It significantly cuts down the spread from people who may not show symptoms yet, from what I’ve read. Simple physics.

I don’t have a temp and I think I would notice a new cough on top of an old one, so wasn’t a risk to anyone unlike the idiots standing staring at me like I’d dropped down from space, in the middle of the aisles thinking social distancing doesn’t apply to them.

For the OP and @Mummyoflittledragon

I have a cough. I stopped smoking in November and my lungs are still clearing themselves out. It’s getting better & better every day. Annoying, but I am not unwell.

I have no reason to think I have COVID-19 & probably don’t. But many people (they think) have it and are symptom free. That could be me. Or you or any of us.

So, how would it be if I went to the supermarket, coughing and spluttering even behind a mask, alarming my fellow shoppers and potentially leaving droplets of my bodily fluids around (masks aren’t that helpful) for others to touch - but thinking (if I was the OP or the Mummy poster) “It’s OK...it’s not COVID”? I have no fucking idea whether I have COVID-19 or not.

Can’t dumb it down any further for the both of you, sorry.

If your mechanism for spreading viruses is active for any reason (also known as A COUGH) then how about you be responsible and don’t go out while we are trying to contain a virus that KILLS PEOPLE.

OK?

(No, I am not going out - my son is).

But the cough can last for weeks afterwards. Is OP supposed to stay in forever? Although she didn't cough while she was out so that's good

The government advice is that you self isolate for 7 days from the start of symptoms. Not until the cough has gone. A post viral cough can go on for up to 8 weeks.

The government advice even says:

The cough may persist for several weeks in some people, despite the coronavirus infection having cleared. A persistent cough alone does not mean someone must continue to self-isolate for more than 7 days

Reading the threads on here with people who have it, they are feeling way too ill to go out after seven days anyway.

Stay home and send teens with gloves on. You should not be going out.

She's already been out. Why should she stay in?

@bubblebu 260 deaths today, not cases.

Stay. At. Home. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🙈🙈🙈