To isolate again

[Scousebird26]

Morning,
I’m posting here for traffic really.
Me and my son are staying with my mum till we are able to move into my new house.

My mum is a key worker (care) and had to self isolate due to a sore throat. She didn’t think she had the virus but work wouldn’t let her go in.

Fast forward a week and my son has come down with the symptoms. He always suffers bad with his chest and I was worried he has a chest infection. Doctor has refused to see him and said it sounds like the virus and now needs to self isolate.

What happens with my mum now, does she go back to work or will she have to stay off longer?

Thank you x

The person who first had symptoms only needs to isolate for 7 days, until they’re not contagious anymore

Thank you for replying, but she really didn’t have symptoms it was literally just a thickly sore throat but work is shit hot with stuff like that.

I would just hate for her to take something into her work if it actually is the virus what my sons showing.

The advice changed several days ago, no wonder this is spreading. If one person in a house develops symptoms, you all stay in for 14 days.

You will all have to isolate for 14 days from his first symptom

The advice says:
Person A with first symptoms isolates for 7 days

Person B & C need to isolate for 14 days

Person C comes down with symptoms within 7 days they can leave after the 14. If the symptoms appear after day 7 they start their 7 days again.

Person B can leave after 14 days if no symptoms shown

Problem is we don't know what the symptoms are when only mild. There could be other bugs doing the rounds that are very similar, so until testing we won't know.

They are introducing testing for people like your mum who work for the nhs this week. I assume it will follow for other key workers soon.

In the meantime yes, she will need to isolate again.

I dont see how she will have to isolate again, if shes already had it (whatever it was). As you cant get it again.

whether or not you are sure you must follow the guidelines

That’s the thing though she didn’t think she had it, it was literally just a sore throat. It lasted a day.

I think I would isolate for 14 days from when your son developed the symptoms, just to be on the safe side. Better to isolate unnecessarily than spread the courts, I think.

But huge sympathies to you all if you’ve just survived 14 days isolation and you’ve got to go straight back to it. Good luck and take care.

She didn’t think she had the virus but work wouldn’t let her go in

Tell her to speak to work and ask them to decide. I do see what you mean with her only having a sore throat for a day, it’s a tricky situation.

“Virus” not courts

She should self isolate and seek advice from work place as to what counts as ‘symptoms’. People may have to self isolate multiple times as we don’t know whether the symptoms are due to corona virus or another virus, so the person may still be susceptible. We also do not know for sure if you become immune after contracting the virus once.

Glue and stick - everyone self isolates for 14 days from the beginning of person A's symptoms, including person A surely

@macncheeseballs

That’s not what the government guidelines say at all.

if you live with others and you are the first in the household to have symptoms of coronavirus, then you must stay at home for 7 days, but all other household members who remain well must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill. See the explanatory diagram
for anyone else in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14 day isolation period. The ending isolation section below has more information, and see the explanatory diagram