If you have a cold and start coughing on day 3, when do you count isolating from?

[KingaRoo]

If you have a cold - sneezing and blocked nose - then 3/4/5/6 days later, for example, you start coughing, do you count the 10 day isolation from the start of your cold or the start of your cough?

Good question.

Our school wants kids who have a cold then start coughing back in school...

From coughing I think. I had to do this as there was no tests available.

It depends on whether it is genuinely a continuous cough or whether it is the cough with cold (normal cough) that is also sweeping the nation I would have thought.

I was pondering this. Unfortunately I think it will be when you start coughing, since that is the official symptom of coronavirus (according to the govt list of cough, fever, taste/smell) so the cold symptoms are neither here nor there.

From when you start coughing. You cannot prove definitively that the cough is not due to getting CV on top.of the cold you already had.

Continuous cough just means an actual cough, not one off (as in have something stuck in your throat etc.)

But yes cough with cold seems a grey area.

There's been lots of posts on here of people being refused tests if they say they have a cold too.

Hmmm, mixed answers...

The government website says: "If you have symptoms, the 10 days starts from when they started."

It also says:

"Keep self-isolating if you have any of these symptoms after 10 days: a high temperature or feeling hot and shivery, a runny nose or sneezing, feeling or being sick, diarrhoea."

So here it is counting runny nose/sneezing as symptoms...

I asked this of 119 when booking dd’s test, they said 1st day of cough, ignore the cold she’d had the previous 5 days.

kinga can you link me to that info please

@KingaRoo

Hmmm, mixed answers...

The government website says: "If you have symptoms, the 10 days starts from when they started."

It also says:

"Keep self-isolating if you have any of these symptoms after 10 days: a high temperature or feeling hot and shivery, a runny nose or sneezing, feeling or being sick, diarrhoea."

So here it is counting runny nose/sneezing as symptoms...

That's in the government guide?! They didn't see fit to mention to people that you need to isolate with those symptoms?! FML.

I agree, could you post the link to that bit
People need to be aware of they are adding other stuff 🙄

Hope this works:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-long-to-self-isolate/

Sorry it's NHS website rather than government website.

From when you start coughing. You cannot prove definitively that the cough is not due to getting CV on top.of the cold you already had.

I’ve never had a cold without getting a cough as well so I do know it would be caused by the cold in my case. I usually cough for at least a few weeks after the cold has gone. This winter will be fun!