How to take this?

[Inthedarkx]

So my sister is 27 years old. She was admitted to hospital early hours Thursday morning for a completely different reason to Covid. She had no Covid signs prior to going to hospital.

a bit of backstory, she has a few weeks stay in a mental health unit due to her mental health conditions. When she was discharged she was diagnosed with 'community acquired pneumonia' (end of October) she has no symptoms and it was coincidental finding. She was given antibiotics to clear it. She had so many Covid tests by the mental health unit, all neg. and no Covid symptoms

Fast forward to Thursday she was admitted for this other reason as I said, she was treated for this other reason, and tested her kidneys and liver for this other Reason which they are functioning correctly

They then did 3 virul Covid tests, all negative, did a chest X-ray, it's all cloudy but she has pneumonia again and a chest infection PLUS was sick into her lungs as well. So they do a Covid blood test all negative!
But they are still saying she's got Covid and now forgetting all this other stuff she was admitted with. She can't breathe without help. She's been sedated.

How can someone be admitted with something completely separate, then have Covid with all negative tests! And how did she have pneumonia in October and had no symptoms and had anti bs and now she's got pneumonia randomly again right now? At first they said it was because she was sick onto her lungs and they cleared that out but now it's Covid??

Now my mum is not sure how to take it as she had contact with my sister on Wednesday ( she supports my sister due to her mental health) and now she's not sure if she's got it or not as my sister tests are negative and she seems fine at the moment, this will be day 5 since contact with my sister.

We was hoping it wasn't Covid as she has more of a chance of survival without Covid, can anyone give me some hope 😢

Did you post this before?

I'm a bit confused about your post if I'm honest, and not aware of a covid blood test? Other than antibodies which aren't really being done anymore.
Sorry but won't be able to give any opinion unless more clarity on what's been going on.

Covid has really distinctive markers on imaging which can be used for diagnosis. If she has spontaneously developed problems with her kidneys or other organs that’s also considered when doctors make a diagnosis.

It may be that she has cleared the original infection and the damage it has left has made her more susceptible to weakness to damage from bacterial infections and damage from things like aspirating vomit.

Really your mum needs to ask your sisters doctor to break down exactly why they are saying she has covid.

@djddjj it was a Covid antibody test via blood they said because he Covid swabs ( 3) are all negative

@Inthedarkx

I read, and commented on, your original post which was deleted for reasons that mean you've had to be vague here.

If the liver and kidney function tests showed normal results then it's incredibly likely that your sister's breathing difficulties have nothing to do with the reason for admission.

As others have said, Covid has particular signs that make it easy to diagnose from lung x-rays etc.

While your sister will undoubtedly need some form of support for the admission reason, that will have to take second place to the immediate danger that she needs help to breathe.

Reassure yourself that she's in the right place to get the immediate help she needs.

@Cornettoninja
My mums asked them, but they've told her because she's 'showing all clinical signs' but the only
Clinical sign she's showing that could suggest Covid is the inability to Breath in her own but that could be caused but by the other reasons she was admitted for ( cant say fully on here) and the pneumonia and chest infection and inhaling vomit. But they saying Covid even though she's had 4 tests which are all negative. Surely if she was seriously ill with Covid her tests would shot positive?

Not necessarily. She may have cleared the original infection and what they’re dealing with is the aftermath and there are many cases of test proven covid patients not testing positive for the particular antibody they’re looking for.

I obviously don’t know exactly why your sister was admitted but I suspect that she is iller than doctors would expect her to be for the reason she’s admitted and along with other signs the only explanation is covid. It’s hard but sometime diagnoses have to be made by excluding everything else.

Ultimately do you think that they’re not treating her with what she needs or is it that you would rather it was a different diagnosis with a better prognosis? From what you’ve put here I’m not sure it makes much difference whether she’s covid+ or not. She sounds very poorly and that they’re treating her symptoms in the most effective way.

I’m very sorry that you’re under this immense pressure and I really hope she starts showing signs of improvement

@Cornettoninja I guess I'm hoping it's not Covid so she's got a better outlook 😢 they are now saying that when she was admitted with the other issues she also showed pneumonia on the X-ray so do you think she's already had Covid like a week prior and walked around with no symptoms but then developed pneumonia after? As I thought pneumonia was a complication of Covid and not actually comes with Covid

Maybe. There are a lot of possibilities and tbh without input from her doctor to explain their reasoning you’re unlikely to know.

If she’s not testing positive for Covid now I don’t see why they’d be so insistent as classifying her as such unless they were very confident they were dealing with its effects.

I think you need to accept that whatever the cause is she’s receiving the treatment she needs to receive. That’s what is important.