Symptomatic; Negative LFTs; kids covid positive

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I've had symptoms all week of covid. Swollen glands & sore throat and feeling slightly ill. Lone parent, fully vaccinated. The children have both had positive lateral flow tests. I work from home and don't see anyone apart from the children.

I've been testing with LFTs almost every day. Am I off my rocker, starting to imagine symptoms or is there a rational explanation as to why my lateral flow tests are not positive?

It may be that you have something else.
The symptoms OP describes aren't the "official" covid symptoms that entitle you to a PCR so I don't know why people are having a go about that.

[quote Whattochoosenow]@SweetPotatoDumpling I think you’re right. People seem to think that every symptom now must be covid.
Does everyone remember when their kids were small and we all got everything going around? Well, I think it’s going to be like that for a couple of years because our immune systems haven’t been regularly challenged.[/quote]
Somehow I cannot get on side with this argument. If you have schoolchildren now, you are still being bombarded with viruses and illness etc. They were only off school for a number of months. The usual onslaught of colds etc resumed quickly.