We are actually going to be testing our kids all the time aren't we

[yukka]

Dd (1yr) got sent home from nursery with 'a bit of a temp' yesterday, it just about reached 38. She had the MMR jab on Wednesday. She was poorly Wednesday, better Thursday and fine Friday am hence sent her in on Friday. By 1:30 her temp was up.

We had to go for a covid test as she's not allowed back until we confirm it's not that.

Thankfully the process was straightforward but it really made me realise how often we will have to do this over the next year.

Because she had a temp on Wednesday (surely from mmr) you have 5 days from first symptoms to get a test. if the test is inconclusive we can try another one tonight/ tomorrow or we have to assume she has it and isolate.

It's really hard to get a stick down to your 1 yr olds tonsils for 10 seconds... I have a gut feeling we will be isolating. And gutted as she only started nursery on Monday having being delayed due to covid and was doing really well.

On the flip side, of course hoping she doesn't have it and mmr is masking symptoms. We've followed all the rules throughout this pandemic it would be a shame if her first week of normality led her to be sick.

Well, the predictable happened, 10 days after MMR, she spiked a temperature again to 37.7. Kept her off nursery, but still can't send her back without another Covid test. So we have been again today 11 days after the original test.

I understand enough time has passed that she could have since got Covid, and also understand that between days 7-11 after MMR the measles element hits the immune systems . .

Hoping this is a one off experience due to the MMR, but, my original thought still stands - we are going to be testing our kids all the time aren't we!

Also if you go on the Covid testing pages on NHS, they no longer state a temp as over 38 - it just says 'warm to the touch on chest or back' it doesn't have to be measured. I believe another government website says 37.8 or above. Spoke to nursery and they are going to go with the 37.8 as a guideline.

@Yukka yes we will be. But there isn't an alternative. It is sadly life at the moment.

As for the temp thing, I think it is because not everyone has a reliable thermometer.