Dd6 with fever, test or wait and see

[milkjetmum]

So DD aged 6 has a fever... At any other brine I would just keep home from school a few days and Calpol. No other symptoms apart from looking peaky and saying she felt a bit wobbly.

Do we go down the coronovirus testing road? Or wait and see if a 2nd symptom appears? Obviously if she gets poorlier I will call GP but seems a standard bug?

But do have in the back of my mind that dh was in hospital on Thursday/Friday last week for stomach pains (probably gallbladder) and so could have brought something home

OP is getting a bit of a hard time but at least had the nous to check here.

It’s the ones who won’t that worry me.

OP I can see where you were coming from. With my youngest dd I have considered that if she ever shows symptoms we might just all isolate for 2 weeks and not bother with testing. She has additional needs and I'm worried that trying to administer a test (either at home or at centre) would be a nightmare, and potentially very distressing for her. However, she is shielding and not at school at the moment, so I hadn't really thought about the wider implications of not testing.

Other than what everyone has already said. Please contact the school and let them know at the earliest.
All schools might be doing things differently, but in our daughter's school if a child is showing a symptom (in this case fever) everyone from the bubble needs to self isolate until the test results come in.
I really hope noone is being irresponsible enough to send their kids with calpol.

I can understand OP not wanting to test such a young child unless it is completely necessary. I keep hearing stories about how unpleasant it is, and about people having a bleeding nose afterwards.

I'm almost dreading nursery going back, as if this winter is anything like last, I'm going to have to subject my 3yo to it 5 or 6 times, every time he gets a cough.

@CaptainMerica same here. My five year old returned to school on the Monday after xmas half term and had a stinking cold by the Friday. Im not holding out much hope

School did phone us back today, no indication that they are going to isolate her class bubble now (I think if schools did that for every child with fever we would all be isolating all the time?) but they did ask us to let them know the results once we have them.