How have I caught the flu when I’m locked down!

[Petiolaris]

Been under lockdown for a month. Haven’t left the house except to sunbathe in the back garden or retrieve bags of groceries that Tesco left on the front doorstep. So how the hell am I having flu symptoms like sore throat and sneezing?!

Possible allergy? Hayfever?

Could it be an allergy? Rapeseed is flowering and it kicks off my allergies.
Other than that I believe it's possible to catch flu from contaminated packaging?

Hayfever? Gave you taken antihistamine to see if this relieves the symptoms?

From your deliveries. On your post? You don't know if your delivery person had sneezed or coughed just before they got to you door.

Or hayfever. Mines kicked right in.

My ten year old daughter has been ill all day with a temperature and she was sick this afternoon. I have no idea how she could have picked anything up as we've not been out of the house for weeks. We have had shopping deliveries and Amazon deliveries, that's our only contact with the outside world.

I have a sore throat with sneezing, it's hay fever in my case - come on in last couple of days.

So how the hell am I having flu symptoms like sore throat and sneezing?!

The flu is a bit more than a sore throat and sneezing. It's probably hay fever.

Sneezing is not a symptom of flu. It sounds as if you may have a cold or hay fever as you also have a sore throat. Isn't the cold virus airborne? If so, you could get it just by being outdoors.

I've have a really bad green snotty cold I developed since lockdown. I havent been anywhere either apart from walks, although my DH is working going shopping. So I guess he gave it to me without having symptoms? Or it's incubation period was long? I just can't shift it.

I've had similar today and I'm sure mine is down to hayfever and the rapeseed pollen. It gives me a dreadful throat. Take some antihistamines and see how you feel.

Last couple of days, worst today, sneezing, itchy eyes, blocked sinuses - last couple of days in the garden.. probably just hay fever for me.

Hayfever here, it is so bad this year.

Yes, sounds like hayfever (although I'm obvs not a doctor lol)
When mine's bad I get runny eyes, bunged up nose, scratchy throat and constant sneezing.

Pollen count is highest in 70 years, apparently.

I've had a sore throat and headache for days, plus the sneezing, itchy eyes and breathlessness. I've also felt fluey with hay fever in the past.

Do you have some allergy meds?

This isn't flu, OP. Flu is awful muscle aches, v high fever, cannot get out of bed for weeks sort of thing. Very different to sneezing and having a sore throat. The pollen count is high so hayfever is v likely. Try some piriton or other antihistamine and see if that eases it

I had a bug too, felt awful, not hay fever as I don’t suffer from that. Temperature and headache. Slept for two days. No cough.

No idea how I caught it as I’m hardly out food shopping and haven’t been anywhere else. So it must be the food or food shop. Even though I use hand sanitiser and sanitise my hands thoroughly. Wipe the goods and throw out envelopes then wash hands thoroughly again.
Frustrating innit.

I've been thinking I've had a cold for a couple of weeks and it only dawned on me yesterday it's probably hay fever. Is this possible OP? Or an allergy to something like a product you've started using eg laundry/toiletries?

I have had it too, and have never had hay fever before.

It sounds like hay fever. It’s earlier spring this year and you probably spend more time outside than usual because of the lockdown.
I’ve got hay fever which usually started mid-May the earliest. Last week I had sore throat and was sneezing so checked pollen forecast, which turned out on high already! tbh I completely forgot checking it because of Coronavirus, so started taking Benadryl 8 hours in the morning and all my sneezing stopped.

Stress can make hayfever much worse, so with the current situation and high pollen count people will suffer more than usual or ever before

My daughter started her hayfever symptoms this week

My hay fever has been worse this year. Lots of sneezing, coughing and itchy eyes. I don't get it every year so it's obviously a bad year for it.

We all caught something. The kids had been off over 4w.
Cleaned the last delivery which was 4-5 days before. We may have been less than 2m away.
Im getting next delivery dropped off in the bags.
It was sore throat and very nasty cough.
If it was caught from the delivery guy it is unbelievable really and certainly not 15min close contact. Would say that they may be breathing heavily. But op says no contact.
Dp is convinced we got what dd2 had weeks before. But she has this too now.
It's actually quite scary. Especially as how the heck can the shielding avoid it.
Other possibilities are some surface of delivery not cleaned
Post (we are quarantining it)
In theory cyclists/runners could be spreading it, we certainly have a lot of those. There has been several of these threads so some bugs at least are either living longer on surfaces or caught from very little interaction. I think measles say needs very little.
(They think some coronaviruses reactivate so maybe this is other ones doing that?)
Apparently adenovirus can live up to 3m on surfaces
Also you could get bugs from your freezer as apparently CV survives that grr so maybe other things do too. To think i always assume it's from the kids

Y’know I also think people might be experiencing sneezing and sore throats because of the amount of cleaning going on. All the bleach and dettol might be giving reactions such as sore eyes, sneezing and headaches etc.

Tree pollen is pretty bad at the moment. All suffering from hay fever in this house.