Anyone think their child has had covid-19

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Hi all

In February this year my son was poorly. Like really poorly. For about ten days he just wanted to sleep, had a temperature, rash etc and when he went back to Pre school (10 days later) I went to pick him up due to high temp. Anyone else think their child may have had it before the lockdown? I know there's no point in what ifs but just wondered if it was actually around before everyone originally thought??

Potentially DS13 - week before lockdown very bad cold, very sore throat, headache, complaining of burning eyes. Main symptoms gone in a week but the cough is still there, DS16 has the same cough - contracted at the same time - still got it. The rest of us no obvious symptoms.

Yes
Mid February my toddler had a terrible cough and temperature. I took him to the doctor three times . They gave him anti biotics which didn't touch it. On the third visit three doctors came in to see him and said it was a viral cough.
He was that sick that I slept in his bedroom floor for a week as I was too worried to leave him. He was coughing to the point of throwing up several times in the night and was soaking through with sweat.

It lasted about two weeks. He was sent home from nursery twice with a temperature.

Two weeks later I got sick. It started with a sore throat and temperature and then turned into the worst cough I have ever had. I had an inhaler that didn't touch it. I was coughing for up to three hours non stop to the point it was making me sick and having nosebleeds. I remember sitting in the car and crying as I felt so unwell.
I also lost all my sense of taste and smell for weeks after.
I am sure we both had it.

We have never been so unwell.

In December so probably too early but my baby had bronchiolitis according to GP at the time. Horrid high temperature, bad cough, breathing problems. Almost ended up in a&e luckily ok. A lot of babies in my group had this too and those who ended up in hospital said there were lots of other babies there too. Thought it was strange at the time as also have a 3 year old and have not heard of any of his friends having it. Covid apparently wasn't around until March but until the tests are available to check if she's had it I'll just have to assume it was bronchiolitis

I feel like this was a bad winter for bugs generally through? Admittedly I had one child starting nursery and one starting reception so we felt the brunt of it, but I remember moaning lightheartedly at our GP practice nurse in January and she reckoned mild winters were always bad for circulation of illnesses.

There was a fever followed by cough thing that took out about half of DC1’s class in November or so (I went to do an early pick up after the office phoned and there were about 7 of them lying down pink-cheeked in the book corner) and 3/4 grandparents had a really horrible flulike thing around Christmas. Almost certainly not Covid in either case.

When the self-isolation rules first came in I just filled up the freezer because it felt like there had permanently been at least one coughing person in my house since about September and it was only a matter of time before we had to lock ourselves down, but luckily that coincided with the end of it.

If you were poorly in Feb/March then maybe, but before that it was probably just the usual viral shitshow.

In March, before the lockdown.

DS (then 21 months) was poorly for over a week. Fever for 7 days, horrible cough. Then on day 9/10 he had a high temperature again. He's never been so unwell, he usually bounces back within a day or two. Of course we were self isolating so we couldn't get a diagnosis.

Aside from me being a bit headachy, neither me or my partner ever had any symptoms. Weird one. Wish we knew for sure.

How about a new name - are you saying DS 13 and DS 16 as in age or amount of children??

Yes @mama202 we were prescribed inhalers after ten weeks of cough and after about another three we seem to have stopped coughing as much. Been a long road whatever it was. Left me quite anxious and scared.

Yeah in just after lockdown.
DS had a nasty cough with no other symptoms.
A week later, I had sore eyes, no appetite, felt generally run down and started violently coughing, had pain low in my lungs etc - lasted 3 weeks. Not enough to stop me wfh, and weirdly the cough eased at night.

Think it took a month for us both to stop coughing totally.

We had scarlet fever and tonsilitis here. Calpol would barely touch the fever and I’ve never known my 5 year old so unwell. It went on for weeks. Conjunctivitis, aches, headache. Found everything too bright. Nothing tasted good. It took a good 6 weeks to get back to normal. This was shortly after I got the worst cough and fever of my life. It took a good three months for the cough to finally go. Beginning of January.

I've remembered we all had another virus in February, fever, lethargy and dry cough which also fits the covid description but the illness in March was just WEIRD and came and went, which others had been describing as covid-like. I'm looking forward to the antibody tests .

We think we all had it (husband, 5 year old DD and me) towards the end of feb/start of March. We had just traveled back from France. DH and DD were bedridden for 5 days and did nothing but sleep. I had it less bad at first and then it wiped me out for weeks and weeks. Still feel like I am not 💯. I spoke to the doctor after six weeks and she told me it was possible it was covid as “there were cases in France then and we didn’t know it, and even just returning through the airport...” (would have been a risk). But back in feb 111 didn’t want to speak with you unless you had traveled through specific countries and Dh thought if it had been covid he would have been hit worse than me (underlying condition) so although I avoided going out and meeting people where I could I couldn’t justify missing one appointment (traveled on tube to get there) and I picked DD up from school twice. I know I could have infected masses of people. If I had listened to my heart or got different advice I would have stayed in sooner. As it was we entered lockdown when Boris announced anyone with a new temp should stay at home even though, by then, mine wasn’t in any way new.

My dd was ill with a high fever, sore throat, headache and lethargy (no cough) just before Feb half term. She went back to school after half term but continued to get spiking temp, ear aches, sore throats, headaches, bad reflux & nausea and a tight chest. She was off school for the two weeks before lockdown as she relapsed and her temperature was all over the place. Its taken her months to get better. In fact she is still getting random symptoms now.

Around that time I also noticed a red mark across her toes one evening (remember asking her what shoes she’s worn and if they were too small) and she also had a rash briefly that I said resembled a chicken pox rash.

She had blood tests in Feb as she’d been ill since December with a fever, breathlessness and persistent dry cough, throwing up etc over Xmas (I also had it and would assume this was Covid if we’d had it 3 months later!) and her lymph nodes were still swollen from this virus in Feb. Blood tests showed low lymphocytes but not a lot else.

Referred to paediatrician who confirmed via telephone significant viral infection but further investigation on hold obviously at the moment..

Not at any point have any drs mentioned coronavirus but if she hasn’t had it, I dread to think how she will react to it! Only wish testing was available to find out.

I am so unsure. The weekend the schools shut mu daughter had a sore throat. Really sore. No temp and a slight cough. (She is 12) a few days later my 6 and 4 year old came down with slight temp and a dry cough. 6 year olds cough was very persistent.
Dp and I were fine. DP is asthmatic and on shielding list.
We are not sure if girls had it. We act like they haven't had it as it could have just been a different mild virus.

Yes I think we all had it end of December into the beginning of January

A good friend of ours was ill over Christmas, we thought he wouldn't make it as he was transferred to London as he was just so desperately ill and the doctors were baffled as it resisted all the medications they threw at it for a resp illness. He actually eventually got better but not before ending up on a ventilator in hdu. He's 70s bless him.
Anyway he was chosen as one of the test subjects for the antibody test. Yep. He has them. The healthcare lot are now saying it looks like he had it when he was so desperately ill.
It's someone I see daily, for extended periods.
So I'm being careful obviously but I'm pretty sure we all as a comment had it one after the other.

Yes i think DS had it early feb. Ds already has health issues and lung condition so is sheilding on advice from his doctors but from first week in feb for about 8 weeks had the worst hacking cough raging temperature couldnt keep it under control with medicines. in that 8 week period had 3 Hospital admissions they were really preplexed about what it could be but treated as Respiratory virus started on iv antibiotics etc. 8 weeks later at review with his resp consultant they suggested possible covid however impossible to tell until they start testing for antibiodies etc but she gave him 3 week course of steroid and a further 2 week course of antibiotics. Following week lockdown happened followed by sheiding advice and thankfully he has been well during this period. But that was such a difficult time. Just to add both me and dh had mild cold like symptoms soon after ds got well. Lost sense of tast for couple of weeks etc. It would be interesting to know if ds has any antibodies to covid...

My ds had a constant cough for weeks. He's 11, but I was so worried at the at the start that I slept in his room with him. He's never in his life had such a bad cough that lasted for weeks and weeks. It very slowly got better but even 12 weeks later, he's coughing a few times a day. I don't know if he had Covid, but I'd be surprised if he didn't.

This is really interesting, I work in a mental health unit and when we got to lockdown and tests in our kind of hospital became availible we had lots of cases. I think I had it 2 weeks before along with other members of staff we were so poorly with horrific coughs and felt silly for taking time off for a "chronic cough", my 19 month old then got the worst temperature hes ever had and had to be picked up from the childminder as he was shaking, I took him to the GP and they said tonsillitis and sent us off with antibiotics and he was ok, however we were worried as another child there had been poorly on and off and then got a rash and the hospital decided it was scarlett fever! The next week my 3 year old got a really high temperature followed by a rash that we thought was hand food and mouth but rash was face and chest so who knows!!

I'm hoping to get an antibody test next week at work as will be interested to see what it says!

Jess sounds like you have been through it too. It's so funny though that people have experienced these things at the same time.

I know one thing though I'm damn proud of his immune system for fighting it off as he was so poorly. It was the kind of poorly that if it was an adult they wouldn't bother to get up for a grand at the bottom of the bed!!!