Symptoms after positive covid test

[zaffa]

Hi - does anyone know what the rules are if you get a temperature within a month of having had COVID and a positive test?

DD is due to return to nursery which has been shut due to covid. She herself has also had covid with no symptoms but her isolation period ended last week.

If she were to get a temp next week once nursery is open; does she get tested again? Won't they pick up the recent previous covid? Can she be reinfected so soon?

Has anyone had this? She's one so regularly has colds etc from
Nursery

You are supposed to retest if you get symptoms within 90 days of a previous positive result (but not retest in the absence of symptoms)

What happens outside of 90 days? Would you not retest?

Do you think it's possible to get COVID straight away again? I suppose a different strain, like a cold. I did worry about us reinfecting each other as the house is like a germ factory (I was very sick and DH has done his absolute best but the house needs a deep clean and I'm straight back into work and homeschooling DSS and looking after DD and DH is an LSA so needed back at work as soon as he could go really)

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No you wouldn’t re test, but if she has a temperature she should stay at home. She could have another virus, so if it happens, speak to doctor. She may still test positive if you were able to test again, which I doubt you can unless you do it privately.

@Mindymomo

No you wouldn’t re test, but if she has a temperature she should stay at home. She could have another virus, so if it happens, speak to doctor. She may still test positive if you were able to test again, which I doubt you can unless you do it privately.

I totally get staying home with a fever, but obviously without a negative test places would expect a ten day isolation (like nursery) I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience of this happening (as fevers are so common in children) and if so, what the outcome was?

Also interesting that you say no retesting and previous poster said you must retest in 90 days

The 90 day thing is because potentially people can continue to test positive for COVID for 90 days after they have had the infection. It doesn't mean they are still infectious, it's just that the test can pick up fragments of old virus that are clearing from the body. So the only time they would suggest getting retested in that time is if the person had further symptoms. Basically, don't retest just for the sake of it.

After 90 days then yes, if symptoms occur again then also test again.

Theoretically yes it's possible to pick up a different strain very soon after having COVID infection.