DD 4 positive test any experiences??

[Jenny4235]

Our dd had a slight cough and tummy ache so we got her tested as it came back positive. Got it back last night and still in shock. She’s okay in herself and is full of energy so I think she’s handling it okay at the moment.

I’m just in shock right now, we spend all this time running away from something and now it’s under my roof... I suffer from heart disease and an arrhythmia and tried to pull the kids out after the summer when numbers here got bad, the school was good but fines etc were mentioned so I bowed down and kept them in. Other than for school runs we don’t leave the house, food deliveries the lot, we’ve been SO careful. I’m so angry with myself for keeping them in when I knew it wasn’t right.

I know we will probably all be fine but I feel like there’s a monster in my house now and I don’t know how it’s going to treat any of us. I am scared right now.

Have any of you had a young child with it? How did they cope with it? Did it spread through the whole house? Has anyone managed to have it in their home and not catch it?

I'm sorry to hear this. My child, 14, caught it at a school with high cases.

He was symptomatic, but did not pass it on to the other three of us in the household (as far as we aware) though I was very strict in how we 'managed' the situation due to my other child being asthmatic (which is driven by colds and any cold and cough etc impacts him differently and more seriously to the rest of us) and not sure we would do that again.

We wore face masks at home, kept windows open, had our own bathrooms and were careful about mixing closely, the three of us.

My son is a teenager, so spent most of his time in his room, eating meals there, using his own bathroom, he went in the garden for fresh air and exercise with us. Obviously, you can't do that with a younger child.

I've been on lots of these threads and there are many instances where the families carried on as normal (some even sharing a bed with or getting coughed on by poorly toddlers) and nobody else caught it.

I hope your daughter feels better soon

Only one of us in the family of 6 didn’t test positive. I suspect he probably had it but didn’t get tested at the right time. The kids were fine. One loss of smell. One a bit off his food. The adults were okay too and even my 77 year old parents were as well- despite one being a high risk.
Just try to rest up. I know what you mean about it being almost surreal that what we’ve been avoiding all year is there but the relief after for us has been huge and I don’t think I knew how on edge I’d been before. The vast majority of people are okay with covid. It’s not something I’d have even stayed off work with other than maybe one day where I felt not right and more like I was coming down with something than had something iyswim. Headache and shoulders ached. A bit of a tight chest. Tired. Cough but not that bad. I’ve had far worse chest infections or colds tbh.

Thank you both that’s really reassuring x

My friends whole house hold just had it, she works on a covid ward and got it first. Her DH was mildly ill for one day, and her 2 kids just had runny noses. She was more unwell but she's fine now and back at work