Covid in the house..

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Hi

DS1 has tested positive this morning after feeling ill on Sunday. Thankfully he's been fine since. He's been self isolating in his room since we arranged his test on Sunday eve.

He's eating in there, using a bathroom which is exclusively his to use. I'm about to go and fetch some laundry from his room - I'll be careful. We're hand washing lots.

Both DS1 and I are asthmatic, not particularly badly but I'm keeping us up to date with inhalers and monitoring peak flow (recommended by asthma nurse at the beginning of the pandemic)

When can we feel safe to let DS out of his room? Does he need to stay in until the end of isolation? I'm guessing the likelihood is we're all going to get it..!

How old is he? If he's old enough to manage that level of isolation then the 10 to 14 days from onset of the symptoms on Sunday.
If he's likely to struggle then you need to find a way to meet his needs, perhaps sitting in the garden with masks on?
Did you spend Christmas within anyone from outside of your household? If so have you informed them of the positive? Do you have other children, have they shown any signs? All of you distancing from one another would reduce the risks to all of you.

Thanks @MotherExtraordinaire , he's 17 so capable of staying in his room I'm just feeling sorry for him . We saw my parents on Christmas Day and they started SI as soon as we arranged the test so all good there. Currently the rest of us are all right, we're not really a huggy/kissy family so happy to stay apart from each other and ramp up the hand washing etc

Oh this is crappy. DS1 is gutted, he's had a rubbish month having already SI at the beginning of Dec due to being in close contact with a few people who tested positive, so this is just a kick in the teeth. No idea where he's got it from either, feels too soon for him to have picked it up Christmas Day (less than 2 days until symptoms) yet he hadn't been out all of the previous week!

its just impossible to know really I think. DD (14) tested positive at the weekend having developed symptoms on Weds evening (23rd) She hasn't been isolating in her room (none of us are vulnerable) and has been around the house as normal. She also spent a long time lying in my bed next to me reading the day before her symptoms started. So far no one else in the house has developed any symptoms. Mind you DD is also totally completely well in herself with the exception of having totally lost her sense of smell (reason for testing)

DS14 stayed and ate in his room, went in garden, own bathroom from the morning of his test (symptoms started night before) for 10 days.

We had spent time together in a room the night before watching a film, but it was an inset day at school and I'd dropped him in and out of school the previous day (though I drive with window open and mask as his school is rife with cases - 20%.of form have had it and DS has had no less than six isolations and other DS three).

My other son is asthmatic so we tried our best and didn't catch it.

The rest of us wore masks when mingling, had windows open and used dishwasher, own bathrooms, rigid handwashing/cleaning.

Don't shake the laundry use gloves to handle it

Oh and my son developed symptoms two days after being in contact with the positive case. I wish they'd revise this 4-5 days window as I've read/heard about so many like my son for who the time frame is far less.

So it is possible he caught it Christmas Day.
Off your parents? Somebody else who he came into contact with?

@middleager , it's possible it was from my parents, they were careful in the run up to Christmas but had been to the supermarket. We were careful seeing them - no hugging etc and stayed away from each other in the house but not impossible for him to have caught it from them. There's no obvious place he could have got it from so I think we'll never know!

Touch wood we're all still ok..

Maybe one of you has had it asymptomatically? Could your other DS have had it first from school?

Possibly?! He finished on the 18th