Anyone elses children been illness free...

[Tattoocrazymum]

for 6 months and within 1 week of being in school, now has a cold.
My 9 year old has come home today croaky and bit of a cough, he does not have a temperature though.
The only illness we have had is my 2 year old had a sickness bug back in march.
Waiting to hear back from the school, i assume he/we will need testing and to self isolate?
I genuinely think its a cold, but i suppose you never know.

[Cet73]

One week back, 13yr old cold and sore throat yesterday, today temp 37.8. Like everyone, can't believe how wide spread these coughs and colds etc are happening when kids essentially returning to a partially sterile.. Well super cleaned... Environment (so we think!) AND they are further apart than usual. Maybe not socially distanced enough but still got to be way better than previous years, plus using own pens, no pe changing rooms etc etc... Yet coldss cropping up as business as usual! I have to say my daughter is the first to get a bad cold once back at school.. Or immune system bless her seems hopeless. But like you guys, ZERO illness since before March.

My concern and question though... We can't book a test anywhere presently. The thing is all these covid guidelines by schools and other places all counted on people being ABLE to get a test!! I think we all have close down soon and lock back on if this testing doesn't improve.
Thinking time to contact MP... I'm absolutely dismayed by state of affairs with testing in this country.

Rant over!

Ps any tips getting a test in Hampshire greatly received!!

[covetingthepreciousthings]

Same here, we didn't have any illness in the house since March, and now they managed 4 days before being hit with something - cold then fever, so awaiting test results.

Just feel like this is going to be a complete nightmare especially with the testing fiasco at the moment.

[ashtyler]

It does sound like the normal start of term. I worked in schools for a long time and by the third week into autumn term, everyone had coughs and colds, including the teachers.

[Grrretel]

@ashtyler

It does sound like the normal start of term. I worked in schools for a long time and by the third week into autumn term, everyone had coughs and colds, including the teachers.

It shouldn't be a normal start of term though should it! That's the whole point.

We've been told it's perfectly safe for kids to go back to school due to all the extra infection control, hygiene and social distancing measures.

If 20 other viruses can whip through school populations within a week, then so can corona.

[PhilipJennings]

That's a good point and a sobering one, @Grrretel .

I'm currently overusing decongestants and painkillers because I can't breathe through my stuffed up face, thanks to the kids bringing bugs home... I haven't left the house apart from the school run in two weeks so unlikely to be anything else. I catch everything. If they picked something up in school I would definitely get it too.

[Sockmonster23]

I’m confused a couple of years ago a doctor told me my son had a virus that’s common come September has temperatures are changing and it’s turning cooler and it’s normal autumn and winter. What happened to all that? My kids have a runny nose and my friend and It always happens September. I think if you have a cold and a bit of a cough and no temperature why getting tests when others could be needing it for fever, continuous cough and generally feeling very unwell and definitely more symptoms. It’s bonkers

[SeekingCoffee33]

Yes except it’s me. Kids are fine. We’ve all been well since March. Within a week I’m the one waiting on a Covid test and feeling rougher and rougher.

Hopefully my wonky taste and now temperature are just a cold but ffs. My immune system must be rubbish!

[SeekingCoffee33]

My immune system is rubbish. Not Covid. Result negative. Hallelujah. Can’t wait not to feel rough!

[BadBanana]

We had to shield as a household since around March.

Not one illness since then.

We even went on a family run coach holiday to Weymouth in August. We went to the shops, restaurants, pubs, sea life centre and beaches. Took precautions such as masks/constant hand washing/social distancing.

Not one illness.

After the second week back at school, entire household down with an awful cough/bad head cold (that our headteacher said we didn’t need to bother testing for as we had runny noses).

Schools have always been a hotbed for viruses, no idea why the government thought it would be different for covid. They could have asked any parent where the majority of illnesses are caught.

It’s the only reason we went on holiday after shielding ended, we knew we were at far greater risk come September and schools opening anyway, so may as well have a holiday why we could.

[justanotherneighinparadise]

Lots of my son’s class have caught a cold and I then caught it from DS. It’s a nasty prolonged bastard too. My son threw it off in about three days and i am still really bunged up with it.

[Bellesavage]

I'm desparate for my DC to get Ill, especially the youngest, he's never been ill as was born this year. He's now at a child minder so I'm hoping he begins to pick things up because I'm very mindful of the research on childhood leukemia being linked to the hygeine hypothesis. He needs to get ill.

[exLtEveDallas]

Not DD but me. Worked throughout lockdown with Key Worker kids. All fit and healthy with only hay fever to deal with. Probably the best I’ve felt through the summer holidays as well, because I usually catch something on the plane!

Day 3 back at school and I develop a streaming cold and sore throat that I’ve now passed to DH. We’ve got over 40 children off (from 240 on roll) with similar symptoms and tonsillitis doing the rounds.

Our cleaning regime and social distancing/bubbles are really robust. So God knows how it’s spread so easily.

[myhumps123]

My son caught a cold. Feels well in himself and in a covid free world would have happily gone to school. Unfortunately he had a minor cough in the morning, for a few hours, but now has to isolate for 14 days as impossible to get tested at the moment, (I've tried plenty of times to get a test). Research all points to that covid presents differently in children then in adults. Cough is not one of the main symptoms in children and I strongly feel that the government should have a different set of symptoms for children that are more accurate

[SimonJT]

Yep, my son went back to school last Monday, last night he was a bit quiet and didn’t eat much, so I took his temperature and it was 38.3! He has been coughing on and off throughout the night and had a bit of an upset tummy.

Luckily I can get a test via rugby if I can’t get one via the gov website.

[WankPuffins]

6 year old dd healthy all year - back to school last week and brought home a stinking cold.

I’ve got it now and so has the 3 week old baby - which is lots of fun

[Frouby]

Ds (yr 2) alldasnot after 6 months of being illness free. He's spent the summer playing on our allotment including cleaning the chickens out, swimming and doing watersports in a lake, sharing food with the dog and at our stables riding/helping with the ponies. You know, all things that people generally think are dirty or cause illness.

3 days back at school and he and half the class have streaming colds.

[AgnesNaismith]

Yep.....5 days in, shitty cold.

It turns out the girl who sits closest to her but next to the wall was sent in with a cold on the first day. The class has been infected like a pack of dominoes from that point. Annoying that I’ve seen the original girl from posts her parents have put on Facebook not socially distancing and meeting up with so many people over the last few months.

[AgnesNaismith]

@Frouby that sounds like the perfect summer!

[bristolone]

A lot of people seem to be getting tests for colds. Mine always have a slight cough at the end of a cold. Should they be tested?

Scotland reported a large increase in testing when schools went back with very few children testing positive.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-53934149

Mine clearly have a cold - it swept through us all quickly and I am over it already. Do we get tests if they are coughing due to mucous running down the back of their throats?

Whilst it gives comfort, it seems overkill to me.

Especially when the child who brought it in to our home had only been to school. So if it's Covid it's already swept through the class (pretty sure it's not).

[FAQs]

Mine usually gets the standard school ‘freshers’ flu but this year nothing so far.

[Frouby]

[quote AgnesNaismith]@Frouby that sounds like the perfect summer![/quote]
He's lived his best life during lockdown to be honest. We are very, very lucky where we live and the things we have been able to do. But he's actually really happy to be back at school.