Testing Positive and no/mild symptoms- Second Test? How long?

[Claricethecat45]

I should know the answer to this and could find it on Dr Google but:

If you test positive but are asymptomatic, is the advice to self isolate and then test again? After how long?

Does anyone have first hand experience of what would be considered 'average' ? Prob no such thing, but my neighbour 2 doors down has tested positive and her DH has been round to shout the news at the end of my driveway...he yelled she is is now out of action but has no idea for how long, so presumably she will need another test? But when? She has only a sore throat - no cough, no fever and no taste or smell disturbance.

I haven't seen her for a few weeks - certainly at least 6. What bothers me is he didn't know what would happen next; She was picked up on a DIY test because they have just had a baby granddaughter born and the DIL asked neighbour to be 100% sure she was OK before visiting

Surprised she was allowed a test, given she didn't have any of the main symptoms.

No the advice is to self isolate for ten days and tell your household to isolate for 14 days. No second test is required. Although if another member of her household gets symptoms they too should be tested (and the 14 days potentially starts again for anyone else in the house if that test is positive...). Her husband should not be going anywhere outside their home and garden, including your driveway.

Honestly, they will have been told all this when notified of the positive result. It’s not really that hard.

Surely she should be isolating for 10 days like everyone else, with members of her household isolating for 14 days. Not sure what the second test idea is all about?
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-long-to-self-isolate/

What?
I've never heard of taking a second test for this.
No wonder there's a shortage!

She paid for a private test - by post - and it came back positive.
No aftercare advice apparently
Husband was yelling at me and my immediate neighbour before taking himself off to his brothers to stay for 2 weeks- he says
His test was clear - negative - and he has been working away and came back yesterday apparently. Mainly to see the new baby - that she now can't go near (reasonably so)

So obviously no aftercare advice - the peril of private testing ?

“ So obviously no aftercare advice - the peril of private testing ?”

I think private test providers should be obliged to give the self isolation information with the results.

But given that information is plastered all over the .gov websites, NHS websites, the GP surgery websites, the BBC, newspapers, radio stations, posters, advertisements and various phone numbers (111, 119) I do think it’s reasonable to expect a capable adult with no additional needs to find out this information themselves. Self isolation rules upon receiving a positive test haven’t changed recently.

The second test thing is probably because some countries require a negative test (or even several) before release from quarantine or hospital. Early on I remember some tourists stuck on cruise ships complaining they were trapped for weeks waiting to test negative consecutively. I don’t think it has ever been a U.K. requirement though.

He should be isolating, even if he only spent one day with her. He should not have gone to his brother's, who also now needs to isolate because of this stupidity. Can you drop a note in to let the wife know he needs to recheck the rules and isolate?

Please, nobody should get a second test after they have tested positive the first time. The national testing system is in crisis and there are nowhere near enough tests for people with symptoms who need them - and that includes key workers with symptoms who can’t manage to get tested.

If someone has a positive test result, they self-isolate for ten days. That’s it. If a fever continues after 10 days, keep self-isolating and seek medical advice if necessary. Don’t retest.

To be fair she shot herself in the foot

Why get a test and cause yourself all that hassle?

Dd has a cold and temp the other day - plus a cough - as did half her class

We never tested and neither did her friends - and it was gone two days later. Why cause so much hassle!

By standards on here I’d have had to keep her off achool a week before finding a test site with space all for it to come back as a cold

@Crunchymum
Surprised she was allowed a test, given she didn't have any of the main symptoms.
They don't check. It would have been morally wrong to get a test on the NHS but I don't know why you are surprised. Anyone can get a test (if they can actually get one on the website!)

He should really be isolating.

But annoyingly, to those saying the brother should now isolate this isn't true. Because when contacted by track and trace, only the contact would need to isolate and not the household. (Husband being contact in this case and brother, household!)

@Ginogineli
It was wrong not to get a test for a cough. It is possible to have a cold plus covid. Likelihood, it is a cold. But it is better to test with the symptoms we are being asked to so that we can get the virus cases down sooner. I'm fed up with people not following the official advice.

What you need to do it clear and everywhere

RIght the husband is at fault here. His wife was positive and he was negative at the point he took the test. That doesnt mean he wont become positive soon

Both of them need to self isolate for 14 days and hope that symptoms don't appear for him otherwise he would need tested and then self isolate again

The brother would not though - unless his brother got symptoms.