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DS Lateral flow positive, waiting on PCR - how on earth do we all isolate in a small house!

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GloomyWaters · 05/06/2021 16:01

LF positive so just taken him for PCR test.

ME and DH have done LF and negative

  • DS in his room isolating - will put his meals outside
  • We have a downstairs toilet - we can use and he can use upstairs bathroom but how do we go on about using the bath if he's using it
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WhentheDealGoesDown1 · 05/06/2021 17:17

A lot of people don't live in a big enough house to keep separate and use separate bathrooms, some DC even have to share rooms, though obviously not on MN as everyone has umpteen toilets and guest rooms.

Aposterhasnoname · 05/06/2021 17:17

Heard it all now. The bloody virus is airborne. If you’re in the same house as him, then you will be exposed to it and no amount of wiping down sinks will make any difference.

Legoandloldolls · 05/06/2021 17:18

I had covid back in Jan. 6 of us in a 3 bed house. I had been sharing my bed with dh and dd for days before I got my positive PCR.

I stayed in my room and I wiped the family bathroom down after I used it. I cant honestly believe no one else caught it from me.

Because we had all in been in close contact the day of my first ( of the main three covid) symptoms and the day it took to book a test and the two days it took for the results, much else felt like over kill.

DinosaurDiana · 05/06/2021 17:18

Seeline - mine doesn’t.

WhentheDealGoesDown1 · 05/06/2021 17:20

I recall a thread last March or April when a poster was insisting that you had to put plastic up to isolate the room and suck out the air with a hoover or something ridiculous like that.

OwlDoll · 05/06/2021 17:29

Ds 20 tested positive three weeks ago. He stayed in his room and wore a mask when he had to use the bathroom. I left his meals on a table beside the door inside his room and to be honest I didn't do any extra cleaning. There are 8 of us all together in a small house and nobody else tested positive.

delilahbucket · 05/06/2021 17:36

There is a 50% chance of others in the household catching it. Unless someone is CEV, I cannot understand this "shutting someone away in their room for ten days by themselves " business. It's cruel. Isolating is hard enough without one person only seeing themselves for nearly two weeks.

Stuffin · 05/06/2021 17:38

I never bothered to isolate from DH when he tested positive and was coughing everywhere in the house as I didn't see the point. Still didn't get it (negative tests).

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep · 05/06/2021 17:58

I thought you were supposed to try and isolate from the rest of the household. To try and stop them getting ill.

I'd rather get covid than banish my kid (or anyone else in the home) to one room and no human contact for ten days.
It's not March 2020. We know who is likely to get seriously ill from this virus. If you aren't in that group why would you behave so irrationally?

MyrtlethePurpleTurtle · 05/06/2021 18:12

@Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep

You don't need to isolate from each other Unless one of you is CEV and unvaccinated then just isolate as a family FGS
But why embrace Covid unnecessarily?
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep · 05/06/2021 18:14

But why embrace Covid unnecessarily?

Like I said I'd rather have covid than isolate my child for ten days. That's horrific.

4PawsGood · 05/06/2021 18:20

@MyrtlethePurpleTurtle But why embrace Covid unnecessarily?

Because it’s too late to bother isolating him. He’s been feeling off for two days and therefore probably contagious for four. If you balance the likelihood of isolating him making any difference against the effect on his mental health, I’d not bother isolating.

looptheloopinahulahoop · 05/06/2021 18:22

Blimey I started reading this thinking it was an old thread! Why on earth would you imprison a child in their bedroom before they've even had a positive PCR result?

And covid doesn't transmit through touching things (unless you sneeze all over something that someone then licks)

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep · 05/06/2021 18:24

@looptheloopinahulahoop

Blimey I started reading this thinking it was an old thread! Why on earth would you imprison a child in their bedroom before they've even had a positive PCR result?

And covid doesn't transmit through touching things (unless you sneeze all over something that someone then licks)

This ^
BiniorellaSun · 05/06/2021 18:26

Are you and DH vaccinated or otherwise CEV?
Just live as normal while not going out of the house or garden.
Wash your hands a lot and don’t hug or kiss your DS.

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NichyNoo · 05/06/2021 18:31

You’ll all have to isolate for 10 days anyway so no need to keep separate within the house. In January my DH and DS tested positive whilst me and other DS were negative despite living together, cuddling, kissing on the mouth so there’s no guarantee you’ll even catch it.

OliveTree75 · 05/06/2021 18:31

We didn't even attempt it. It is airborne and you are contagious before symptoms. Still my DS and DD didn't catch it and she bedshares with me and her dad and we both had it. We carried on as normal within our house and quite frankly would never isolate one of my kids in their room.

jazzandh · 05/06/2021 18:38

Plenty of air flow through the house.

handwash frequently, and wipe high contact touch surfaces. (So bathroom door handles etc as you would for anything else that was unpleasant).

make sure he coughs and sneezes into a tissue etc.

Treat it like any other virus that you don't want to catch from your kids especially.

cptartapp · 05/06/2021 18:48

DS18 tested positive this week. Me and DH are double jabbed and I've previously tested positive for antibodies. DS16 spent three hours in a car sat next to his brother the day before symptoms appeared.
The weather is glorious, all windows are open , he spends a lot of time in his room anyway. We're not doing much more tbh.

Abraxan · 05/06/2021 19:10

Lots of ventilation and then just keep,a part a it. But when I had covid I didn't isolate in my own. As it happens I think I'd had a few days anyway, just with none of the main 3 symptoms, but other health symptoms suggest so. Dh slept in the same bed as me before, during and afterwards. Teen Dd didn't stay away. After the first day or so, I sat in the same room to watch tv, to eat, etc.

Neither dh or Dd got symptoms or tested positive, so,see,s I didn't pass it on to them anyway.

Legoandloldolls · 05/06/2021 19:12

Regardless of the fact that everyone has to isolate on the house and it's likely to be transmitted. Dont people feel guilty coughing in the same room for days on end? If your the adult with it not a kid coughing over you I mean.

I couldn't stop it if it did spread in my household but I would feel too shitty if I knew I was positive and carried on as normal, coughing over the kids.

We are being told to protect people via transmission so why not within your own house even it's just a token gesture? I felt less bad coughing alone in my bedroom.

Another worry was that I couldn't get my head around if I was positive, I gave it to someone else say on day six then on day ten they could all off and symmetrically spread it around.

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 05/06/2021 19:22

@Legoandloldolls

Regardless of the fact that everyone has to isolate on the house and it's likely to be transmitted. Dont people feel guilty coughing in the same room for days on end? If your the adult with it not a kid coughing over you I mean.

I couldn't stop it if it did spread in my household but I would feel too shitty if I knew I was positive and carried on as normal, coughing over the kids.

We are being told to protect people via transmission so why not within your own house even it's just a token gesture? I felt less bad coughing alone in my bedroom.

Another worry was that I couldn't get my head around if I was positive, I gave it to someone else say on day six then on day ten they could all off and symmetrically spread it around.

The thing is that it isn't likely to be transmitted, pre vaccine it was only 50% likelihood within a household now it must be below that I'd say

If you knew you were positive what would possess you to cough over your children?

There's a whole happy medium between that and banishing family members to their bedrooms.

OliveTree75 · 05/06/2021 19:25

@Legoandloldolls

Regardless of the fact that everyone has to isolate on the house and it's likely to be transmitted. Dont people feel guilty coughing in the same room for days on end? If your the adult with it not a kid coughing over you I mean.

I couldn't stop it if it did spread in my household but I would feel too shitty if I knew I was positive and carried on as normal, coughing over the kids.

We are being told to protect people via transmission so why not within your own house even it's just a token gesture? I felt less bad coughing alone in my bedroom.

Another worry was that I couldn't get my head around if I was positive, I gave it to someone else say on day six then on day ten they could all off and symmetrically spread it around.

I didn't have a cough when I had it, so....
PinkSparklyPussyCat · 05/06/2021 19:28

I don't have kids but I DH and I won't be isolating from each other if either of us had to, even if we test positive. Like a lot of people we don't have the room so we've said from the beginning we're in it together. It would be the same if we had children as far as I'm concerned