Child with new cough, should I send her in?

[cough101]

Child has a new cough, started as a sore throat and has developed to a continuous cough
No temp
Feels ok in themselves ( eating, playing etc)

Should I send to school?

I KNOW the NHS site says to isolate even if there's no temp, but they genuinely seem ok in themselves and have suffered coughs in the past, so not unusual

There are no confirmed cases on Covid in my city

AIBU to send them in? Would you isolate? actually isolate at this stage? It seems such an extreme measure

Thanks

My son developed a cough yesterday, it’s his standard damp weather asthma cough.

As I’m not ignorant I won’t be sending him to school next week.

No op don't send her in.

I understand the guidance - I have a new cough and so will have to self isolate for 7 days.

However, I am a frontline healthcare worker and I KNOW that members of my team will be sighing, rolling their eyes and thinking I am taking the piss.

Maybe I am? No temperature and my cough isn't terrible (yet). I feel awful at having to be off work at a time like this when it is probably not even covid-19. Obviously I will follow the guidelines but I understand why people are worried about it.

Thanks for all your replies.

I will be isolating.

It's not a problem for me, I can work from home easily and will be, but I was more concerned about jumping the gun and overreacting.
I don't think the rules aren't for me, or that I'm in anyway special.

As a parent you have to risk assess and make judgement calls all the time and this one I struggled with

I think some people are interpreting continuous cough as any new cough. Is that right or wrong? I agree the guidance is unclear. I checked with my HR dept on Friday (the company I work for has been absolutely fantastic) because a Co worker had a cough (she probably coughed say once every hour and a half ish). I was told that was not a continuous cough. The cv cough is supposed to be coughing all the time (stomach ache from coughing kind of cough).

Human variability means you can't really say this. Think of it like chicken pox blisters- if you've only got a handful, or even one, could it still be chickenpox? Yes, obviously. I'd be interested to know where your HR person got her information from.

This is why we are screwed. No offence to you OP.

Without a lockdown people just don't take it seriously enough and there's too much room for misunderstandings.

Jesus this is why it’s going to be impossible. I can’t understand how you would think you could possible send the child in, it’s very clear that NEW COUGH = ISOLATE. And yes, would you believe it, that does even apply to you.

Wtf?!

It is not new cough = isolate though is it? That's the point. You can't select certain words. The advice is new and continuous cough = isolate. I think people are rightly asking what that means.

It’s new cough OR persistent cough.

patient.info/news-and-features/covid-19-coronavirus-how-to-self-isolate

I actually despair. I simply cannot understand how anyone can still possibly need to ask this question.

No OP, YOU don't need to risk assess. YOU don't need to make a judgement call. The government have already done that for you.

Just follow the simple fucking guidelines.

Just read a similar exchange on Facebook. Woman stating her DC had a persistent cough and she was self-isolating for a week. Her "friend" telling her not to bother, lots of coughs and colds about.

Infuriating.

@cough101 You’re missing the point. the government have made the guidelines specifically so you DON’T have to make a judgement call. There is no judgement or call to make

Cough - isolate
Fever - Isolate

They’ve made it as simple as they can for people to follow

As I’ve said on another thread. New from when? Thursday when the Gov issued the advice?
DD was coughing, continuously, Sat and Sun. much better Mon and improved every day since.
I started coughing Tue and I still am. So because I was ill before Thu my cough isn’t new. Or is it?

Lols that you have to ask!

Op I am glad you have decided to isolate your. However why you struggled with the decision is behind me!

FFS it's because of idiots like you why I've already taken my children out of school

I think it is best just to isolate with any cough at all, unless you permanently have a cough due to a chronic condition.

I would also isolate with any cold or flu symptoms including runny nose which affects some covid 19 patients. Having attended a private hospital yesterday they were asking people to report to reception on entry and even if runny nose was the only symptom or you had general cold and flu symptoms you could not enter. They have obviously decided the govt advice is not comprehensive at this point.

I think it should be a new government policy that anyone is allowed to take their children out (with or without symptoms) if they want to, without penalty, simply because there are people like OP sending their sick kids to school.

@Totalshambles

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The NHS advice is that you must stay home of you have a new, continuous cough.

FFS

I honestly can't beleive the level of stupidity I see on here. The guidelines are perfectly clear.

@conny848 I really hope you can understand that “this means you’ve started coughing repeatedly” means that you have a cough. Having a cough means coughing. It is different to coughing once or clearing your throat. You know when you have developed a new cough. Ffs, do you seriously find this difficult? Why are you arguing about it. This is just the kind of shit we don’t need.

My feeling was that they had dumbed down the science too much, and I thought it was a little patronising. I did think we could handle a bit more background about the science and modeling behind the decisions. But given the struggles that so many seem to be having with the very basics I think they have probably judged Jo Public about right.

Today in the shops I saw pushing and shoving over pasta and loo roll, I saw spitting, people touching loose fruit and veg and putting it back - and then come on here and see daft attempts at semantic arguments about the definition of developing a new cough.

This is the bigger battle than the virus.

Teen Dd has what I assume is a cold. Sniffles and sore throat, a bit of a headache at times. She's got a bit of a cough - coughing a few times an hour but it's not persistent or continuous. She says she has catarrh which is what's making her cough.
She has no temperature - I made her take it a couple of times today, orally and it was around 35.6 at the last reading. She's tired and is currently having a nap after coming for a bit of a walk in the fresh air with us (countryside near home, no close contact with anyone) but that would be normal after doing the same with a cold. She's also a teenager and likes her bed.

But does she head to school tomorrow?

No temperature and the cough is not persistent/constant.

Totalshambles
Jo Public? Dumbed down? You complete and utter sanatmonious prick. I know what a fucking cough is. I know what the advice is. I don't need a fucking lecture from you. Jog on love.