Anyone got people in your house self isolating - tips please?

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DP currently trying to get back from North Italy and will have to self isolate immediately upon return. Just trying to get organised for the fortnight ahead. I have two students who will overlap with the quarantine and a sick puppy.

Gosh I thought self isolation just meant staying at home! If you’d all been exposed would you just use your house as normal but stay in? I wouldn’t be able to not exercise for 14 days! I’d have to go in the garden (we live rurally so no neighbours close) and do circuits or something.

I've already agreed with dd that if one of us has to self isolate we'll do it together. DD is late teens and neither of us has any underlying conditions that put us at particular risk so we'll just hibernate. I can't leave DD to fend for herself with our pets and have no one she or they can stay with who isn't elderly.

i'd be considering a commode chair for those with no second br.'s. along with a rota (quarantined person last and cleaning up).

No problem with the rota but we are not having a bloody commode! Anyway it still wouldn’t solve the problem of not having a spare room

If I need to self-isolate I intend to go out in the car by myself every day. Live in the countryside in the middle of nowhere, and can't see any reason not to go out for walks by myself, have picnics outside, etc.
Seems cats can stay in the home, but not go into your room.

As we won’t be having an isolation room I presume the cat may as well go where he likes (like he does now!). We’ll be the ones feeding him and emptying his tray so I don’t see what difference it’ll make

I also thought self isolating was staying at home, unless one person actually had the virus. Apparently not. Well wouldn't work for us. No one to look after the dogs and one wouldn't leave DH's side anyway. I suspect that if DH got it,he'd be in hospital anyway as he does have underlying health problems.

Have been wondering about this and thinking we might get a second kettle and toaster so we could put them in the bedroom of the isolating person so they can make drinks and snacks independently. We're lucky and do have a spare bathroom

Edinamonsoon - I’m so sorry you’re going through this. That sounds utterly awful for you all. Sending you a huge hug and hoping your ds feels brighter soon x

@EggysMom don't do that... you don't get immunity from catching it like with chicken pox. You can catch it again.

@biwi no contact with pets because they can catch it too

"If I need to self-isolate I intend to go out in the car by myself every day. Live in the countryside in the middle of nowhere, and can't see any reason not to go out for walks by myself, have picnics outside, etc."

Self-isolate means stay home
Do not go out

That's a good idea about second kettles.

@CorianderLord - I did wonder about that

@CorianderLord that’s not what I’ve read. My understanding is that you’re immune once you’ve recovered.

I think the pet thing is because they provide a “surface” for the virus after being petted? We could have separate bedrooms here, but the cat can open the doors, and we only have one bathroom.

There was a first person piece in the Guardian last weekend from a Chinese man who had the virus/was recovered. He was a student and returned to his family home, which seemed to be quite large because extended family lived with them. He had an en suite in his room, and his gran brought meals to the bedroom door,with disposable chopsticks. At the time of writing, the other people in the house hadn’t got it - he was in his 20s so I imagine the grandparents were older people.

The UK man that recovered in China had a kitten that got ill and died while he was ill.

@Flossie44 Thank you. Unfortunately both myself & youngest DS have started coughing this evening too. I will absolutely quarantine all of us if feeling same/worse tomorrow. Have also told DH that he needs to consult with his boss & work from home rather than risk taking the infection into the office. My view is that even if this isn’t Covid 19, spreading any infection during an epidemic will lower the immunity of others & make them less resistant to more serious illnesses.

Thank you to unescorted and BIWI for the nhs guidelines. I saw them last night so first thing today went to my local pharmacy who from under the counter sold me 100 x alcohol wipes for a tenner.
I went onto a couple of medical supplies websitess and spent a small fortune on gloves, an overpriced spray foam that they use in care homes and hospitals for hard surfaces. I have six decent face masks used for diy which are apparently P3 respirator, whatever that means. However, it's the airborne that bothers me most...
For living arrangements...DH is going to be given the attic bedroom which has little headroom but a velux wndow but importantly its own bathroom. I'm also going to turn our 4th bedroom/ dumping area into a sitting area for him which has full head height. So he's bloody lucky we have two rooms we can keep separate. DC1 is possibly going to decant to friends or my DSis house. DC2 is here for three days and will look after sick puppy while i am running upstairs delivering food as per Israel friend of Serens
I had forgotten my washing machine (which is getting repaired tomorrrow) had a 90 degree wash button. i will do that as perSeasonally suggests. I have masses of hand soap and he can get the oldest towels in the house which will then in our recycling hierarchy be passed to the dogs. I have an older one which is not sick.)
Edina's arrangements are probably what i will try and live up to. Yes, to dishwasher but it's normally only at 35*. DCs are going to be furious at our eco cred vanishing.
The two dog thing is going to be interesting. I honestly can't see why he can't walk them if he wears his mask and plastic gloves and speaks to no one. There are huge fields near our house. Sick puppy has giardia and a problem absorbing food. We have been scrupulous for the last six weeks with steaming floors so i already had 'normal' cleaning supplies.
Bluehighlighter's point about the car is a good one- he can go off in his own car to break the monotony assuming he doesn't need me to follow him to the petrol station...
Oh no don'tcallme shirley we must find out why the cat died..
Latest news is that he is travelling to Austria tomorrow and gets home on Wednesday.

What's special about Covid 19 that you can't gain immunity from getting it and recovering from it?

Edina just saw your update. That’s really rough but I agree. I work from home and my DP’s boss called today to see what had happened and said (nicely) he didn’t want DP near the office. I’m only planning on walking the dogs and not going anywhere else. milk, orange juice and eggs all get delivered by the milk people. Will go see my DM before DP gets back. I stocked her up at the weekend with supplies. Hope your DC’s places of education are understanding

Sorry if this has been covered
Does anybody know if the 2 week isolation is required if the person takes a swab test and it comes back negative .? Can’t seem I get an answer from government or nhs sites

Thankyoun

If either of us get CV we shall not be isolating from each other.

Actually the young Chinese man in the Guardian piece said that his gran and one of his other family members fell ill, but weren't tested.

@MrsLindor I was thinking about this. What if i catch it, but have to stay home and be look after DD? Would I just have to deal with that? If there was nowhere else for her at all to go?

@PapercraftNinja me too, I'm a single parent with no family to help. My youngest is breastfed. I would have to isolate all of us together and feel bloody rotten if I passed it onto my kids but there is no one else to look after them.

@Tara200 with my ds once he was cleared with a negative swab he was told he could go out again. So only 5 days quarantine. Thus may have changed now though.