Ds has been back in school since Monday and now has a temperature and is full of snot

[FlatteredFool]

Ffs. Anyone else's dc picked anything up this week? We spent a lot of the autumn isolating due to fevers and coughs and here we go again

You don't need to isolate necessarily. Just get the test and you can go back to normal if it's negative

It’s called a cold. Children get them.

Temperature = isloate + test

Hopefully negative!

@ChameleonClara

Temperature = isloate + test

Hopefully negative!

yep.

I hope it's 'just a cold'

When my son went to school in September his first week he came back with a cough and snotty nose.

We isolated and he got tested. Was negative so back to school the day after results.

Book a test OP a temp is a symptom

My dd is the same. She was fine this morning but she said after about ten minutes there she had a very sore throat and headache, feeling sick.
It got worse throughout the day and she’s asleep already. So worrying isn’t it. I just hope it’s another illness that’ll quickly pass.

No temperatures here but we’ve all retuned to school/ work this week and have all been blessed with streaming colds and sore throats. I’ve now got a bit of cough, which freaked out a young client today.it was nothing on Covid cough last year. That went on for five weeks! Luckily I’ve got lateral flow tests coming out of my ears here, so we’ve all tickled our tonsils and, as suspected, just an innocent case of revolting kids sharing their snot around. Yuk. Social contact is vastly overrated!

I hope it’s just a cold too op, but please get him tested and isolate the household until you know the result.

Same here. 6yo is complaining of a sore throat and has a snotty nose.

We've been back 5 days. 5 fucking days!!!!

DS had his first cold in ages this week, started overnight. Test booked for later that morning, result through at 5am. Inconclusive so tried again, again loads of slots so booked in at a time we found useful and result back at 3am. It's really so very quick to get results that you might just as well do it straight away.

(Negative here, just a snotty little cold that's thankfully fine already.)

Same here. Reception child off with slight temp 2 days. Pcr booked as school can't then accept lateral flow once symptoms are present, result in 11hrs, negative, back to school today.

Do the lateral flow tests work if you have symptoms?

I've booked him a test. I'm very cautious and always get a test for any of the main symptoms. Luckily he doesn't mind having it done. His older sibling are big drama llamas about it but he's not fussed at all. I'm just hoping he doesn't give what it is to me as I've had so many asthma exacerbation this past year thanks to the dc getting colds.

The lateral flow tests have a very poor accuracy so not that reliable. They are more useful for 'mass testing' to pick up people without symptoms. A PCR test is the best if you have symptoms.

Oh Op, what a PITA. Dreading this, we had the same after the first week back in September, when you couldn’t get a test for love nor money. Then two week isolation because the teacher caught Covid, and then a week off before Cmas because of a cold. Having done the test then, I know there’s no way DD will tolerate it a second time, so that’ll be us doing the full isolation once she inevitably catches a cold (which she’s prone to and always gets a fever with even when the rest of the kids in the class don’t 🙄).

@BoogleMcGroogle - we’ve been told not to use the LF tests if you have symptoms, with symptoms you need the other test .

A school near me only opened on Monday and they have had 7 confirmed cases in one class and 9 in another class.

Ye Amy daughter has a cold already, full of snot

No
And to tbh mine (touch wood) literally never seem to get coughs or colds

@Outnumberedwoman

A school near me only opened on Monday and they have had 7 confirmed cases in one class and 9 in another class.

Odd

I live in a large densely populated town in SE England

8 cases last week. On one day - zero cases.

And that’s in the entire town, not just schools

@Outnumberedwoman

A school near me only opened on Monday and they have had 7 confirmed cases in one class and 9 in another class.

And I’ve just checked In the entire borough of London and Hackney - 82 cases in the entire week 2-8th March

So this is.... unusual

For those who have children who have an awful cold/sore throat/etc. do they go to school as normal if they're up to it? I'm very conflicted about what to do. The primary school dd goes to say send them in unless they have the top 3 symptoms. But this will miss a huge amount of children who present differently. It's much more common to have different symptoms with children. ARGH!

@Realitea

For those who have children who have an awful cold/sore throat/etc. do they go to school as normal if they're up to it? I'm very conflicted about what to do. The primary school dd goes to say send them in unless they have the top 3 symptoms. But this will miss a huge amount of children who present differently. It's much more common to have different symptoms with children. ARGH!

Are you up to much with an “awful cold/sore throat”?!