If one of you got it, did you all get it?

[mistermagpie]

My son is three and tested positive yesterday. He was in contact with a positive case at nursery last week (isolating since Thursday) so we're not too surprised, he's doing ok so far.

We haven't been following the public health advice, I mean obviously he washes his hands and all that, but we are not keeping him separate from the rest of the family. He's only little, he wouldn't understand, and we have three children aged five and under in a small house, so it's just not possible. It's a risk we have accepted we are all taking, but I'm not making a poorly three year old eat by himself and not give him a cuddle etc.

Anyway, nobody else has symptoms yet but I expect we will all get it. I wondered if a member of your family tested positive and you didn't keep separate from them, did you all get it and how soon?

I'm 100% sure I had it in March although not tested - my symptoms were nausea and loss of appetite, followed by high temp and then total loss of smell and taste. My DH and DS didn't have any symptoms at all, they may have been asymptomatic but who knows!

My ds has it now, we are on day 8 of isolation. I have some symptoms (well, severe back ache, which is what ds had) and I'm waiting on a home test. If I do come back positive does that mean my dd's have to add on another 14 days on top of their isolation?

The lumpiness od how Covid spreads is known. Unlike flu it is much more subject to super spreader events, which mean although on average it is more contagious than flu, this is because very large numbers of people can end up infected by one person m ( in the right circumstances). I think there is a hypothesis that this means individuals have varying levels of infectiveness with some people being much more infectious than others. I imagine how many people in a particular household catch it will depend on how much contact there is but also how infectious each individual is ( or how much virus they are shedding) the latter of which appears to vary in ways we don't understand.

I’ve had an antibody test through work and dc have both had 2 antibody tests as they’re in a clinical trial. As far as we were aware nobody has been unwell with covid.

My antibody test in July was positive.

DC’s in May and August were both negative. They have one more in January which will be interesting as they’ve been back in school since September.

DP almost certainly had it but wasn't tested (hospital docs later on concluded he had it). I think I likely had it and at least one of 3 kids. I read at the time some Chinese research that concluded in a household with one case 50% of the household would ikely catch it.

On testing I was very surprised recently when I got my DD tested that I or she had to do the test ourselves. Surely that is a recipe for false results. The instructions were to touch the tonsils but to avoid touching the tounge and cheek. Chances of me complying with that is pretty slim. I had thought professionals would do it.

It's so interesting and a bit reassuring to hear that some people have it in the family but don't get it. DH still has a cough but he tested negative last week, so unless it was a false negative then he doesn't have it. Me and other DS are fine and DD is a baby so it's harder to know, but she has no symptoms we can tell.

The DS who is positive started with symptoms on Thursday so we are maybe on day 4 now? He seems ok so far but I'm worried he takes a turn for the worst.

Why would you all test if you didn’t have symptoms? My DC was isolated as close contact at school but she/or us didn’t develop symptoms so we didn’t test - she isolated - we didn’t have to.

Yes. Ds got it, and tested positive on the Thursday. DP and I tested positive the following Wednesday.

Funnily enough re. the test, my DD (who has just turned one) had a test a few weeks ago and was required to have her nose and tonsils swabbed. When we got DS tested yesterday they said under 5s only needed the nostril swabs. It was a different site though, but seemed strange.

@GirlOnFireA

Why would you all test if you didn’t have symptoms? My DC was isolated as close contact at school but she/or us didn’t develop symptoms so we didn’t test - she isolated - we didn’t have to.

Sorry maybe I wasn't clear, DS did have symptoms (not the classic ones mind you, but SIL is a Dr and advised to test) and DH has a cough so he tested last week.

DD tested a few weeks ago because she had a cough and temp of 39.

Me and other DS have no symptoms so haven't tested.

Theres this strange view on mumsnet about testing. A belief you should never never have a test unless you have symptoms, and even then, only symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of breath. I think it's a remnant from the early days when there was a shortage of tests. I live in an area where we can have tests whenever we want, results in 15 minutes and it's really helped drive down infection. I cant believe it's not available everywhere tbh.

I had it first, then DH tested positive. Then both our children had it but we didn’t get them tested as we didn’t want to put them through it and they were off anyway. Yes all of us had it, maybe it’s because I’m the only one who does the cooking/cleaning, running of the house.

@XiCi do you have to do the test yourself in your area. I do wonder how many people do it properly if they are doing it themselves. If it were only the nostril then it would be fairly easy but for adults and older children have to do both.

Mine went to an official drive through centre and still had to do it themselves (DH and DC, 14).

Nope. Eldest child brought it home from school about 8 weeks ago

We tested privately before we came out of isolation - rest of us negative.

Me and DH had antibody tests last week. Negative.

No, just me. I didn't keep myself away from hubby or my son, and neither of them caught it.

DH and DD6 finished their 14 day isolation yesterday (from my symptoms starting and subsequent positive) Nothing. I was not isolating from them and DH and I slept in a double bed every night.

yearinyearout
Not really sure who you mean by 'they' but you don't get to speak to anyone about your results unless they are positive. If they develop further then I will probably test again just incase but you only have to isolate from the start of symptoms so technically it would make no difference if I got a positive test anyway unless I still had a temperature.

Yes my son caught it from a child at school. We all subsequently tested positive. My husband and I were quite poorly, my daughter was asymptomatic (Zoe app said for us all to get tested so that’s why she was tested too).

A friend of mine is a nurse and had it back in the peak of April. No one else in her family - husband and 4 kids got it. Then in July her teen son who is 19 went to Zante on holiday and a week after returning he tested positive as did his friend who went on holiday with. No one else in the family got it. Middle of September the 10 yr got it very mildly but because of his diagnosis his bubble at school closed and no one at school or in his family got it. Yesterday her DH tested positive for it (he is a teacher!). So they are literally on their 4th isolation period, They don't keep separate from each other but are still careful but not once have they transmitted it to each other. All 4 cases have been caught outside of the home. It really doesn't make sense!!

My dh tested positive for antibodies in July but he had not been ill at all. My ds tested positive for covid 9 days ago and we are currently self isolating. Dh, myself and our dd have had no symptoms at all and so we are thinking maybe we caught it when dh had it asymptomatically back in March but ds didn’t for some reason. Although, there’s still time as we are still isolating until the 4th Dec. We believe dh had it in March as his dad had a raging fever for days (dh spent a lot of time with him) and he also tested positive for antibodies in Sept.

Me and OH have recently had it (I was allowed to stop isolating today!) and 3yo hasn't caught it somehow.

I passed it on to all three family members. They caught it with a couple of days.

If your three year old hasn't been tested, they may well have caught it without you knowing. If my SIL hadn't persuaded us to get DS tested there's no way I would have thought he had it, he tested positive yesterday and has been running around playing Spider-Man all afternoon today!

We did test him as he had a slight cough and it was negative.