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Has anyone managed to avoid it with a positive member of the household?

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MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 27/08/2021 19:40

Ds has tested positive- he's single jabbed. Dh and I are double jabbed. DS is happy to keep to his room just as he would if he had flu or any other illness and is happy enough with a plentiful supply of food to his room Grin

Only one bathroom unfortunately.

Anyone else avoided it when a member of the family has it?

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HarryLimeFoxtrot · 27/08/2021 19:58

We live in a town that was an early hotspot for the Indian variant. We were phoned by Public Health England and told that it was this variant, and asked follow-up questions about symptoms. Or at least the other 3 were (I was answering on behalf of DS).

LlamasintheFog · 27/08/2021 19:58

DS (17) has just got over it - he got the jab text the morning he started showing symptoms. Anyway, I'm double jabbed and had 24 hrs of feeling a bit weird but no other symptoms since and, touch wood, seem to have avoided it. As I'm the size of a planet, fear it would have been very bad indeed if I'd not been jabbed so...thank you AZ!

WhatTheFoot · 27/08/2021 19:59

I've not caught it even though my husband and two daughters have both had it. We did nothing any differently to normal, noone stayed in their rooms or anything like that..husband and younger dd were quite poorly so I was in close contact to them both when looking after them, how I didn't get it I have no idea.

DuckonaBike · 27/08/2021 20:04

Do you know your blood groups? I read something a while ago saying people who are O can give it to anyone but can only catch it from other Os. Unfortunately I can’t remember the details.
Sorry this is rather vague but you could Google if you’re interested.

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MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 27/08/2021 20:06

I think I'm an 'uncommon group' I vaguely remember the midwives commenting when I was pregnant - can't remember what though, I know nothing about blood groups!

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ZenNudist · 27/08/2021 20:08

Yes recently 3 family members avoided catching it from the 4th. Fingers crossed! And my friend had same before vaccines. None of us isolated from the others. Though I was less keen to kiss dh when he had it!!

Hepzibar · 27/08/2021 20:13

My 25 year old son tested positive last October. No vaccines then but neither me or DH got it. DS was also happy to stay in his room.

HarryLimeFoxtrot · 27/08/2021 20:13

@DuckonaBike
Do you know your blood groups? I read something a while ago saying people who are O can give it to anyone but can only catch it from other Os. Unfortunately I can’t remember the details. Sorry this is rather vague but you could Google if you’re interested.

Oh that’s interesting. DH and the DC are all O+, whereas I’m B-. I’d not even considered that as a factor. Although it sounds like they should’ve been able to give it to me as well as to each other.

PrincessNutNuts · 27/08/2021 20:24

We've all just had it and we toppled like dominoes. DH first, then the kids, then me.

But we might all have caught it at the same wedding.

HelloMissus · 27/08/2021 20:28

DD managed not to catch it despite sharing a bed and a water bottle with Simone who tested positive the next day.
But she’s made of strange Teflon.

RuthW · 27/08/2021 20:31

Yes. Dd got it Christmas eve. I didn't. I was single jabbed.

InvincibleInvisibility · 27/08/2021 20:34

I had it in March 2020.
Didn't isolate from family. Neither DC nor DH caught it.

DH and DS2 had it in February 2021. Didn't isolate. I didn't catch it (but still had antibodies) and neither did DS1 (no antibodies).

LawnFever · 27/08/2021 20:34

Yeah DH had it, picked it up from his family but we both saw them and I never picked it up at the time or from him the whole time he had it, only one bathroom - I slept in a different room once we knew but he must’ve had it a few days before symptoms started when we shared a bed.

MojoJojo71 · 27/08/2021 20:40

DS caught it in January before he’d been vaccinated. He stayed in his room and I delivered food. We shared a bathroom but we cleaned it after use. I’d had one vaccine but still caught it from him . DD hadn’t been vaccinated but despite spending 2 weeks in a flat with 2 positive cases she didn’t catch it. She’s also had contact with lots of positive cases at school but never caught it.

lightattheendofthetunnel2021 · 27/08/2021 21:00

DH tested positive on the day we came back from holiday (spending time in one room and a long car journey). We carried on as normal, he didn't isolate.

None of the rest of the family, including me, got it or tested positive.

So, yes, is the short answer though I didn't even try to avoid it tbh. Wouldn't exactly drink from the same cup...

Lineeyesoverhere · 27/08/2021 21:17

Dh tested positive a couple of weeks back. I barricaded him in the spare room (he’s forever in debt for the number of meals/drinks/bits and bobs I delivered to his room whilst keeping the children entertained, happy with fifty million snack requests and doing everything else!Confused), he used a separate bathroom and I went dettol spray and anti bac crazy. We also kept all the windows open and doors during the day.
He played with the children outside, had dinner in the garden when he felt a bit better and wore a mask on the odd occasion he walked through the house.

We’re both double jabbed and I didn’t catch it. Neither did the DC who are very young and kept wanting to run into Daddy’s room!

Good luck!

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MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 27/08/2021 21:21

Thanks Smile

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Angrymum22 · 27/08/2021 21:49

Yes DS came back from Boardmasters with Covid ( double vaccinated but only a week post 2nd vaccine). I drove him home so spent 6+ hours in the car with him and 2 other teens who may have been positive.
DS isolated but we live in a smallish house with only one bathroom.DH and I are both vaccinated and also both had Covid last year (DS obviously didn’t I think the under 40s were much more resistant to earlier variants).
Dh and I have been absolutely fine.
DS had pretty bad cough and felt rough for a couple of days but is fully recovered. We let him out last night after 10 days.

DivorcedAndDelighted · 27/08/2021 21:57

Yep, I clearly had it without knowing as had antibodies, but none of my kids ( teens & 20s) got it as far as we know. 2 of them had negative antibody tests.
Later, after I'd had 1 jab, I spent an evening & night with my boyfriend. He had a cold which turned out to be Covid despite him being double jabbed. I did regular lateral flow tests but didn't get anything.

Sosososotired · 27/08/2021 22:18

Ds had covid at xmas and the rest of us avoided it. We weren't jabbed at that point either. Dd tested positive last week and same story. None of us have caught it despite he being all over us all week/ sleeping next to me. Hope your ds recovers quickly. Very mild illness here thankfully!!

Mum32021 · 28/08/2021 08:39

Ive got it dd9 has it dh and my toddler haven't caught it negative lfts and pcrs, we haven't isolated away from them and still sharing a bed, he is double jabbed ive only had 1 jab

JoeMaplin · 28/08/2021 08:41

Yes none of us caught it from my teenager. One bathroom and sibling (no jab) shared a bedroom until positive test.

CrunchyCarrot · 28/08/2021 08:48

Those of you who think you didn't get Covid - how can you be so sure? You may have had it asymptomatically. The only way you'll know you really didn't get it is by testing for antibodies. I thought I didn't catch it when my DP had it, but turns out I did. I just didn't know.

HarryLimeFoxtrot · 28/08/2021 09:17

Those of you who think you didn't get Covid - how can you be so sure? You may have had it asymptomatically. The only way you'll know you really didn't get it is by testing for antibodies. I thought I didn't catch it when my DP had it, but turns out I did. I just didn't know.

I did a PCR test every time someone else in the household did (so 3 times during the weeks we had covid in the household). All negative. Plus a further one with ONS a few days after the final isolation period ended: mine was negative, DD and DH were still positive at that point. Plus I was doing lateral flow tests throughout - they were all negative too.

ihearttc · 28/08/2021 10:36

We all had covid back in Jan/Feb apart from my 10 year old DS2 who managed to not get it. We tested him throughout and every test was negative.