Sick of getting my 2.5 year old tested

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She's come down with a cold, no covid symptoms yet but, as always it's highly likely a cough will develop. She can't blow her nose so gets all get phlegmy at the back of her nose.

She's had FIVE tests and I'm sick of it, she gets distressed everytime, it has been negative everytime. Children get coughs and colds so regularly and everytime she's coughed previously I've got frustrated with her because it's like HERE WE GO AGAIN. My friend's child to isolate when they had croup, the doctor even diagnosed croup! I'm just done now. Couldn't give a flying farting space about bloody COVID-19.

Agree with the people pointing out the difference between undergoing something invasive or painful when not for their own benefit. Very different to lifesaving medical treatment.

@TempsPerdu you make sense!

@gallbladderpain check my Pp. This has been me. And again... I don’t expect anyone else’s life to stop because of it!

Very few people on this thread are saying they won't test their kids. They are saying they are sick of having to test them in this horrid way. Other countries have introduced saliva testing. Why can't we?

Also... neither myself or the OP said we weren’t testing... just expressing how grim it is! And yes... it is grim for the child and us as the parent. ALSO no, not a PFP

[quote Lockdownbear]@gallbladderpain you mention Classroom. The thread is about very young children. There is a massive difference between testing school aged children and preschool children / babies.

It's definitely different fighting your child to do something that benefits them directly, I can cope with a daily fight to brush teeth and a fight with an inhaler.
But fighting to swab nostrils or throats is a different ball game especially when you are 99% certain that the child has nothing more than a cold.[/quote]
People are talking about childcare/nursery etc which have young children in them.
No one can be 99% certain their child has nothing more than a cold. My friend felt the same with a 2 year old and a 9 month old they got tested as they had very mild cold symptoms, snotty nose, mild cough but she was certain that they didn't have covid, it seemed they were coughing with phlegm as young children with colds do. To be fair so was everyone she was texting about it. Both came back positive so wasn't it lucky she was responsible and did test them rather than just send them on to childcare (they are a keyworker) and end up affecting other peoples lives through sickness and bubble closures at daycare. In the end as much as it is protrayed as a mild illness and that is how theirs initially started, 2 weeks later her baby wasn't recovering and was admitted to hospital.
Goes to show no parent can be certain

@Sunshineday1

Also... neither myself or the OP said we weren’t testing... just expressing how grim it is! And yes... it is grim for the child and us as the parent. ALSO no, not a PFP

It isn't pleasant for the child or parent, no one has said it is but it seems it is the only option right now. Saliva testing would be useful for toddlers but i'm just not quite sure how that would work with younger age group in getting them to spit into the cup. Many other posters on this thread however have suggested they won't test, they will test themselves or just lie and say the test is negative so they can carry on their lives without needing to self isolate.

@gallbladderpain saliva testing is used in France and for younger kids it is collected from their mouths using a pipette

www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Covid-saliva-testing-in-French-schools-Parents-FAQs

[quote Nikki305]@gallbladderpain saliva testing is used in France and for younger kids it is collected from their mouths using a pipette

www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Covid-saliva-testing-in-French-schools-Parents-FAQs[/quote]
This does sound like a good idea and much easier for children but I would imagine the same issues with the very young children with regards the pipette in the mouth given how resistant they usually are to a syringe of medicine at the best of times. It can only be better than the nasal swab however.

I'm so infuriated the government haven't implemented this already. They are so out of touch of what it's like to live in the real world. Bet Boris has never tested his own baby

@Crumpsly

I wouldn’t test her again. She’s not going to get ill and it’s distressing. I’d tell the nursery I had tested her if asked and maybe take a test myself. Children have had to give up enough for a disease which mainly effects the elderly.

On a different note it’s all so contradictory about the vaccines and transmission.

Do not do this. Lie to nursery about taking a test and sending her in? What if she did have covid and then she infected every one in her class who then infected everyone at their home including vulnerable children and adults. It takes a selfish kind of person to even suggest this.