Positive test advice please

[Chasingthesun1]

Hi there,

Looking for advice. My DH has just tested positive for Covid. Myself and our DC will now need to isolate. DH is going to isolate on the third floor- there is a bedroom and toilet. I will leave meals etc outside. Is this still the done thing or should be all mix as we normally would? He is the only one with symptoms we all feel fine.

Will I be contacted by track and trace also? I have a feeling my work will ask me for proof of DH test/ the need to isolate. I wfh anyway so no real issue there as I can still work from home.

Thank you

I wouldn't mix if you can avoid it.

I would think you would already have been exposed by now. My Dh got it ,it was too late, I caught it off him but our DD who lives here did not get any symptoms and we didnt bother trying to isolate.

Perhaps consider testing yourself and DCs that way you know if you already have covid? We’ve had this conversation as our neighbours are isolating (positive) with their (negative) DCs and have even been wearing masks in their house for the last 10 days. I don’t think we will be going to those lengths. Although interestingly the DCs have never tested positive

Seems overkill to me but then I'm a single parent so had to carry on parenting as usual when I had it. But if you've got the space and you want to then I don't see why not.

As you are in a townhouse and if your husband is feeling ropey he will probably be happy to rest alone. It depends how old your DC are whether they will be willing to leave him alone? Are your DC already at home?

Does he have any idea where he contracted it?

Keep him upstairs, he won't be at his most contagious yet.

There's every chance you'll avoid catching if it you keep your distance and wash your hands etc etc. We have been through this rigmarole twice with teen children and managed not to catch it.

I literally know no-one in real life who has isolated anyone in their house. It’s shit enough as it is being stuck in the house, let alone confined to one room! Maybe if you are vulnerable but otherwise, no chance! Just be a family and get on with it. Think of the thousands of people with young kids, they can’t isolate from each other. I had covid in December. I wasn’t very ill, I’ve had worse colds. I continued to fully care for my young DD’s, share beds with them, continued to be around my other half, still shared a bed, still had sex even .. my OH & eldest DD didn’t catch it. They tested twice each and all negative. No symptoms either. My 9 month old tested positive two days later..

*mind you, if someone told me to isolate for 10 days away from my kids, I’d probably take it 🤣 Feet up, adult telly on.. a dream!

I would get him to isolate. Doesn’t guarantee that you won’t all get it though

I'd do lateral flow tests for you and the DC, as they're freely available and you can take one with/without symptoms. If you're already +ve there's not much point isolating your DH on the top floor.

We all went about as normal in our house🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks for all the advice.

DH has been working as normal throughout the pandemic although due to the nature of the job largely on his own so we are struggling to pin point exactly where he could have been exposed other than the gym or supermarket.

I have done a lateral flow for myself and DC this afternoon and they are all negative. As yet DH isn’t feeling very poorly but does have a cough hence him getting the PCR. We have both had our first vaccine so hoping this will mean he won’t be as poorly.

DC are primary school age so will if need be keep their distance from DH. Still unsure what to do for the best, it’s going to be pretty grim all stuck at home never mind shutting DH out.
Thankfully the weather is nice and we can keep busy in the garden.

We continued as normal in our house. 3 out of 5 of us got it.

yes track and trace will contact you. You can get a self isolation certificate though even if they don't, you just fill out a form online. My work were happy to take my word for it, I still emailed over a copy of the test and a certificate.

You don't want your DH coughing viral droplets over you so I'd keep your distance if possible. Ventilation is really important as covid coughs and farts are stinky!

It seems now if you're a contact you will be eligible for a pcr test straight away . That's what I was told to do two weeks ago as a contact. I think that they're trying to test all contacts of positive cases so that any asymptomatic cases can then be identified and their contacts traced

Isolate DH as much as possible - at least whilst he still has symptoms.

It's possible he caught it from an asymptomatic child - but by the time you tested them, they had cleared the virus. But guess you'll never know!!

Hope he feels better soon.

If it’s practical I would try to keep away from him as much as possible. Having said that, one of my friends got it and she doesn’t have space to isolate so she was just sensible, wore masks & minimised contact (although she has a young daughter so it was impossible 100%) and nobody else in the house caught it. Good luck op. Hope you are all okay.

Contacts can get a PCR test now

My ds who is 20 has Covid at Easter and he isolated in his room with his own bathroom
None of us caught it from him and he had no symptoms. He loved having meals brought to him and said it was great

This happened to us last week

Test & Trace will contact you, and you'll also be asked to get a PCR test too (and DC, if possible). Regardless of that result you still need to isolate. Your DH should have been told not to mix with the rest of the household.

I tested positive, I have isolated in my room ever since, we share a bathroom but I don't enter without sanitising before and after. I can't risk my family catching this.

DH tested negative on PCR has tested negative daily with LFT since.

We went on as normal when I caught it. Dh slept in the same bed before and after my result, bar the couple of days I was in hospital.

Neither dh or teen Dd got symptoms or tested positive despite this.

If he has tested positive then you've already been exposed.

However some people do isolate within the home and it works for them, so it is fairly normal for some to do so.

DS1 tested positive last week. Despite spending most of his time in his room since (teenager) both DS2 and double AZ. vaccinated DH also tested positive a few days later.
You need a PCR too, but must still isolate for 10 days regardless.
I had Pfizer and have tested positive for antibodies last year and am fine.

I wouldn’t bother trying to isolate personally unless you consider yourself to be vulnerable?

Isolate in the house from DH I mean. Obviously you have to stay inside.