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Does keeping one person isolated work?

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SummerStressing · 19/08/2021 19:47

DH tested positive on a LF on Wednesday am. He went to bed fairly early on Tuesday PM having felt ropey all evening. He slept in the spare room. All contact before then as normal.
Since Tuesday night he’s been effectively isolated. I’ve sent meals up to him and we have an en-suite bathroom. He’s popped down to get things while me and two DC have been out.

I have no symptoms and negative lft’s as of this evening. I’m double jabbed.

Do you think we can avoid it? I don’t want to be stressing for nothing and looking after the children all by myself when we could have been together (DH isnt very unwell and could watch TV with kids or read a story).

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Stuffin · 19/08/2021 19:48

I never isolated from DH when he tested positive and was symptomatic coughing everywhere and I tested negative twice so didn't get it.

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SummerStressing · 19/08/2021 20:53

That’s really positive @Stuffin, thank you.

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winnieanddaisy · 19/08/2021 23:00

When my Dd had covid in November I caught it from her but neither my DGD or SIL had it . DGD stayed mostly away from her mum but SIL was taking food to DD , watching TV with her and even sleeping in the same bed . At this point he hadn't been vaccinated Confused. It's strange the way it is, or isn't , transmitted .

Mindymomo · 20/08/2021 07:03

Has DH had a PCR test done to confirm he has covid. I would definitely stay away from him until you get result back.

beentoldcomputersaysno · 20/08/2021 07:05

I've personally known of a few households where it wasn't passed on, but that was quite early on when it was hard to get tests, so don't know if others got it and didn't show symptoms. One was sharing a bed before partner showed symptoms and he was fine, one v healthy and active has been ill over a year but his kids didn't get it and another was ill for about a month and kids also didn't get it. It's a bit of both - also seen whole families get it. it's a strange illness.

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SummerStressing · 20/08/2021 13:47

Thanks! DH is positive. This mornings lft was again negative. Track and trace have emailed and suggested booking a PCR regardless. Which is what we shall do.

The transmission stuff is odd. My close contact work team all caught it in January and I didn’t.

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Stuffin · 20/08/2021 13:53

Right at the beginning of the pandemic even though it was a novel virus I remember reading that some people may have some natural immunity based on exposure to other coronaviruses but that narrative was never discussed again but I do wonder if that is why you can be around people clearly expelling the virus in close contact e.g. within households and some people never catch it.

caughtinanet · 20/08/2021 13:56

No one can tell who will catch it and in what circumstances but what we've known since the start is that transmission is absolutely not 100% even within a house so all you can do it reduce the risk by staying apart. How strict you are is totally up to you but you can't predict what will happen

cls123 · 20/08/2021 14:34

i dont think it really makes sense for him to isolate as your kids are going to catch it at one point or another arent they?( unless you have kids of the age where they may be offered a vaccine?) surely its best to expose them now whilst you are both home with them rather than face them catching it once they are back at school?

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SummerStressing · 20/08/2021 14:43

@cls123 that’s kind of where I’ve been going with my thoughts. Just get it over with. My children are only 5 and 3. I veer between ‘let it rip’ and not being able to face a few weeks of quarantine in the summer hols.

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longtompot · 20/08/2021 14:50

I'm about to have a hospital procedure and need to have a pcr test before. I have the option of isolating from all my family or we all isolate together. I guess the hospital think it works to isolate from your household.

allypally32 · 20/08/2021 14:53

We tried in our household but all it did in the end was prolong the isolation period to 4 weeks as in the end we all got it.

GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 20/08/2021 14:56

My mum had covid in December, and myself and three siblings who all live with her didn't get it. (I mean, we assume we didn't get it; we all had cold symptoms, but one sibling had had covid about a month before, so we assumed if we had the same cold symptoms as him it probably wasn't covid). She stayed in her room the whole ten days, using the ensuite bathroom and having food bought up to her. Before that, we were all in pretty close contact (two of my siblings were in a car with her for several hours a day before symptoms started, and we were all in room together the evening she started coughing).

Frazzled2207 · 20/08/2021 16:22

My friend who tested positive last week gave it to her husband, but not until over a week after she had tested positive herself.
She didn’t try to isolate herself from him but now thinks if she had done he might have been “spared”.
OTOH they are both fine (double vaccinated, very mild symptoms)

Aurorie11 · 20/08/2021 16:24

My DH had Covid at Easter neither me or DC got it, we isolated him in the house and avoided it

Baystard · 20/08/2021 16:32

Remember the talk about viral load early on? I think you should expect the rest of the household to get it (fingers crossed you don't though) but see the isolation as reducing the viral load you might get and thus reduce the severity of symptoms.

Smartiepants79 · 20/08/2021 16:33

We isolated my DH and none of the rest of us caught it.

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SummerStressing · 20/08/2021 16:33

@allypally32 this is my fear. 4 weeks must have been bad.

If the advice was still to isolate, I think I would let us all get it. By being double vaxxed we can be out and about (I am lft-ing like crazy and staying outdoors).

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museumum · 20/08/2021 16:34

My teen nephew didn’t pass it to any of his family (but did to the girlfriend he snogged the day before getting symptoms)

Siameasy · 20/08/2021 16:34

I have Covid and DH and DD have tested negative (PCR). We are doing a few things like not sharing water bottles but not isolating at all from each other no

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SummerStressing · 20/08/2021 16:36

Such mixed results. I feel like we might as well keep going for a few more days. I read that most cases come out by day 5 after exposure. We’re roughly on day 3. Exposure on Wednesday am was very low.

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allypally32 · 20/08/2021 17:00

@SummerStressing the lateral flows really worked for us. Glad the rules have changed and you can now go out and about. It was really hard having to isolate for so long. My husband and I are double vaxxed and thankfully our symptoms were mild.

umberellaonesie · 20/08/2021 17:02

Yes son 20 had symptoms Friday positive PCR Saturday.
The rest of the family 2 adults 2 children have had negative PCR Sunday and yesterday and negative lfts daily. No symptoms.
Positive son has left his room to shower and use bathroom only cleaning after use.

crisplist · 20/08/2021 17:38

I shared food and bed with my dd the day before she tested positive. I'm still negative 8 days on.
I think your dh should isolate at least for the first couple of days, just to reduce the chance. Maybe do a few lft to see if he's getting better.

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SummerStressing · 20/08/2021 18:41

@crisplist do you mean that his lft’s will show as negative as he improves? That’s really interesting.

Part of me feels like all hope is lost. It was our wedding anniversary on Monday Blush and he came down with symptoms on Tuesday.

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