If your child has a positive result

[Charleybabes1]

Having to take my 2 daughters for a test this morning, as they have new coughs.
If it comes back positive will we have to isolate them in their bedrooms? Even though up to now we've all been in each other's space? We all share a bathroom, they are 6 and 7.

No - they’re 6 & 7, just all isolate in the house.

I have two other children well they are teenagers would you say that.they need to keep out of the way?

It's up to you. Keeping a 6 and 7 year old sat in their bedrooms for 10 days would be rather harsh but you may want to introduce some form of family separation to stop it spreading (if it hasn't already). I'd certainly suggest not all eating together and increasing ventilation. In Italy they recommend using separate bathroom if you have them.

My 9yo tested positive and he didn’t isolate from us but we kept playing with siblings to a minimum and if he was playing games online, watching tv etc we encouraged him to do so in his room. We got washed everything and cleaned a lot! He seemed too young to be expected to properly isolate. As it was I tested positive a couple of days later and then we went back to normal as I could t isolate from the children.

My 6 year old won't stay in a separate room for more than a few minutes. It's not practical to expect them to do ten days in household isolation.

Honestly OP, just pause a minute, imagine it's not a pandemic, and re read your post. Do you think shutting young children in their rooms is the right choice? If my six year old has a positive test, she'll be on the sofa cuddling me and being looked after, just as she has been for every other illness.

My 11 year old tested positive on Friday, the rest of us were negative. We tried to make sure we wiped everything she touched, washed hands loads and she sat on a different chair but think we were just fighting a losing battle. My husband tested positive on Tuesday and Dd2 has a temperature now. We could have tried harder to isolate I guess, but she's a child and it's Christmas.

There’s no way I would put such young children in their rooms, Covid or not. I would encourage the older ones to keep their distance as much as possible and clean a lot.

My son is 10 he tested positive last Thursday. He has Autism so there is no way he can be left nor would I anyway. He needs extra help with things. We have just carried on as normal but with even more strict hand washing and hygiene practices. We have all just isolated in the house. Ive had a test this morning as im showing Mild symptoms, x

My four year old had it. By the time the positive result came back she had coughed in my face multiple times, needed extra cuddles, had shared a bed with her brother two nights. So we kinda thought it was too late to be too worried as really exposed. We just all isolated for two weeks. Noone else got it.

Just continue as normal OP. You all have touched and shared things in the house so it doesn’t make much difference.

Who in their right mind would lock their little children in a room to isolate?
If my children are ill they want me and I want to be with them to comfort them and make sure they're OK, covid or not.
Honestly some of the things I read on here

Hi thanks for the reply.😕 obviously I'm not going to lock my kids away but if I can get them to stay in their lovely large bedroom full of their lovely toys as much as possible, it's not going to be a hardship for them is it I do also have 2 teenagers that I have to think about also.

@thetoughhaveleft

Honestly OP, just pause a minute, imagine it's not a pandemic, and re read your post. Do you think shutting young children in their rooms is the right choice? If my six year old has a positive test, she'll be on the sofa cuddling me and being looked after, just as she has been for every other illness.

Hi there it is only because we are in a global pandemic that I am asking this question. In any normal circumstances I wouldn't be worrying that if I caught something I have the potential to be seriously ill or even die.

It's a sensible question to ask OP. It's not like chicken pox or other childhood diseases where other members of the household are likely to have some prior immunity and it

...would not be a fun Christmas if you all come down with it at the same time.

@AvoidingRealHumans

Who in their right mind would lock their little children in a room to isolate? If my children are ill they want me and I want to be with them to comfort them and make sure they're OK, covid or not. Honestly some of the things I read on here

Especially on Christmas Day

Dd, 15, tested positive in November, we never isolated or washed everything down.

By the time we knew she was positive a week had passed anyway as it presented like a cold.

Take care, rest and relax as much as you can (difficult in current circumstances I know).

Take are of yourselves

Take care

I wouldn't keep them in rooms.

If you have more than one loo/bathroom then I'd make one just for the teens so there's less cleaning and tell the young ones that their siblings rooms were out of bounds but it would be cruel to keep such young kids fully confined.

Do you or anyone in your household vulnerable?

With my son who is 14 whilst we were waiting for the result we encouraged him to stay in his room as much as possible- but never stopped him coming out. He was happy eating separately and is not a particularly cuddly boy. My other two younger ds chose to stay away from him. They are old enough to understand the risk though and don't play with ds1 anyway. It is really amount minimising the risk of infection whilst still maintaining the contact.

My 14 year old pretty much kept to his room, own bathroom, went in garden.

We tried to keep everything separate as my other son gets asthma triggered by viruses. We aired the house and the rest of us didn't mingle closely either.

We didn't catch Covid, but if he'd been the ages of your child, then it would be different.

My 2yo tested positive this week, quickly followed by me. It's impossible to totally isolate. I've wiped down door handles and light switches, cleaned bathrooms. I think the best thing you can do is keep windows open so the viral load can't build up in any room.
So far DH and dd5 are symptom free. I've also slept in a separate room to DH.

I think trying to get the teenagers to isolate from the younger two might be more feasible - if they're anything like my brothers they'll practically live in their rooms anyway! Otherwise, as others have said - windows, separate bathroom if you can, step up on the hand hygiene.

My mum tested positive almost two weeks ago. She had symptoms which she wasn't quite sure if they were symptoms for a few days before she decided they were definitely symptoms and she needed to isolate. Since the day she had her test, my brothers and I have all stayed away from her, but we were all together in the days before she started getting symptoms/first couple of days of symptoms, and either none of us (four young adults) got it, or we've had it asymptomatically. We've all had cold symptoms which we didn't get tested for because a) none of the major symptoms, b) one brother (uni student) has already had it, so we thought it was unlikely he'd have it again, so his symptoms must be a cold, and c) we weren't going out anywhere anyway.