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Self isolating for all symptoms within the next two weeks
soloula · 10/03/2020 14:25
Just reading the latest announcement that in the next couple weeks they might want anyone displaying symptoms to start self isolating. They're talking about runny nose even though this is an atypical symptom. Anyone wondering how this is going to work in reality? I appreciate its to keep anyone in that might have corona and fully understand the reasoning behind it. Folk might not know if their cold is covid 19. But another week or two and my hay-fever will probably start up. Sneezing and coughing for months. Are they really expecting people like me to self isolate for all that time, when I know its not corona causing my symptoms?
Wolfiefan · 10/03/2020 14:27
I’m screwed if they do this. Allergic rhinitis and immunosuppressed so I always have a cold. See you when they create a cure for colds and allergies. 
Thirder · 10/03/2020 14:27
Do you get a temperature with hay fever though? That's the main symptom.
Wolfiefan · 10/03/2020 14:35
They’re not saying any fever. Any mild symptoms such as respiratory symptoms.
HoffiCoffi13 · 10/03/2020 14:38
I was thinking this. DS (13 months) currently has a cold. No fever, just a typical runny nose and sneezes.
If I isolate him, I have to isolate myself. Which means I can’t get my older two children to school. So I isolate the whole family because my baby has a normal winter cold?
Hugglespuffed · 10/03/2020 14:39
What I don't understand also, can single parents take their children to school still?
soloula · 10/03/2020 16:23
Yeah they said any symptoms of a mild respiratory infection which include coughs, sniffles and fever. Right when hay-fever season is kicking off. I don't get fevers but I can look, sound and feel pretty bloody ill with hay-fever.
Wolfiefan · 10/03/2020 16:25
I sound really awful. Because I have a cold. Just a cold. It’s bonkers.
sanitygirl · 10/03/2020 16:27
Assume if you're a single parent (like me) that the whole household has to isolate - can't see how it would work otherwise. Just hoping that none of us get a cold. I occasionally sneeze from dust in my office - seems absurd if I would have to isolate the whole family for that!
w00dlander · 10/03/2020 16:46
I've just had a cold. My colds always turn into a cough after and that's started today. I know it's a normal end of cold cough and it could go in for weeks (usually up to 3/4) - will I have to isolate in 2 weeks time?!?
Ridiculous!
PregnantCat · 10/03/2020 18:25
I was talking about this at work today. This would effectively mean shutting schools - most teachers I know have had colds for weeks!
CathyandHeathcliff · 10/03/2020 18:29
Would the same rule apply for a 17 month old in nursery? He’s ALWAYS got a runny nose and a bit of a cough !
PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 10/03/2020 18:30
I have asthma that's set off by tree pollen, so that's going to be fun in a couple of weeks!
soundsystem · 10/03/2020 18:37
I'm confused about this as well. If every child with a cold stays off school there will be very few children there!
My DD(5) currently has a minor cold and has been going to school (as they school expects her to!). If she still has the same cold next week does she have to stay off? Seems a bit pointless?
Sockwomble · 10/03/2020 18:38
Ds has had a runny nose and has sounded bunged up for 6 weeks. No cough. No fever. If this comes in I can see him being out of school for months.
WanderingLost1 · 10/03/2020 18:51
I know how you feel OP. I’ve had a chronic cough for almost two years (!) that my GP can’t get to the bottom of. I’ve had lung x-rays, allergy tests, lung function tests (lung function is impaired). It’s really bad at the moment. If I’m meant to self-isolate I could be stuck at home for years FFS
Bogoffrain · 10/03/2020 18:56
What happens to sickness monitoring at work, especially those that work in an organisation that uses Bradford formula etc. If people are already on a trigger at work they will go in. The gov needs to instruct employers to not discriminate in these circumstances (a bit like pregnancy related illness shouldn’t count on your sick record).
wildcherries · 10/03/2020 19:04
Is there a link for this info? I haven't seen it. Thanks.
idontlike789 · 10/03/2020 19:07
The symptoms are not a sniffle
It is a fever , temperature and a dry cough .
A sniffle is a cold they are not suggesting you self isolate with a runny nose but if you or your dc has a temperature then yes .
Bogoffrain · 10/03/2020 19:08
My children and I always get raging temps with a common cold😩
eeeyoresmiles · 10/03/2020 19:09
The fact is that desperate times call for desperate measures.
Wandering, you're not likely to be at home for years - there will be a point when this first wave of illness has gone. But if you've got impaired lung function, you're probably going to want to be staying well away from other people anyway, aren't you? (Have you had reflux or GERD investigated as a cause of your cough?)
I know that this will seem extreme and crazy on the face of it, but to be honest things like this have been on the cards for weeks, along with all the things like cancellations of gatherings and closures of schools and quarantines. We'll need to do some of those, although it's not clear exactly which ones will happen when.
Don't underestimate how extremely socially unacceptable it could be about to become, to be out and about and at work with any kind of respiratory symptoms.
This is a kind of war now and the best we can hope (or campaign) for is government safety nets for people who will struggle financially from the more extreme measures.
The ultimate prize is containing or massively slowing down the spread so that our entire health service doesn't crash, and fewer people (who absolutely won't all be old or very sick already) will die unnecessarily.
joffreyscoffees · 10/03/2020 19:10
DD is 20 months and at nursery full time. She has had a runny nose since she was 8 weeks old. Not sure what we'll do to be honest!
idontlike789 · 10/03/2020 19:13
@Joffreyscoffes runny nose is not a symptom of Coronavirus that is a cold .
WanderingLost1 · 10/03/2020 19:19
Don't underestimate how extremely socially unacceptable it could be about to become, to be out and about and at work with any kind of respiratory symptoms.
I work from home but as for the rest, I’ve basically stopped going out. Even six weeks ago people were passing comment 
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