Negative lateral flow for one, positive another

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DD felt ill, lateral flow said she was fine so we carried on as normal, though keeping her off school.

I now feel awful, just done one and I’m positive, obviously both now done PCR. It’s highly unlikely that her lateral flow was wrong right?

Question is the other two are both coming up negative and should be in school, but I now don’t trust the tests! Would you send them in (as school requires) or keep them off?

I mean it’s unlikely her lateral flow wasn’t a false negative

False negative lateral flows are common. If she had symptoms (although I accept you didn’t say what she was unwell with) then she should have had PCR immediately as LF aren’t reliable enough.

Can’t answer the school query though.

Lateral flow tests are just not accurate enough to diagnose one way or another for people with symptoms.

They should only be used to try and detect some asymptomatic cases in society that would otherwise go undetected.

You’ve done the right thing booking a pcr

Sorry, but you need to do PCR tests for the whole family.

Hope it's only mild for you!

She only went down on Monday night/Tuesday morning, headache and just exhausted so not classic symptoms. I lateral flow tested last night just in case but negative so packed all off to school this morning (bar her).

I then started to feel ill today and she wouldn’t eat saying everything tasted funny hence then getting others at pick up and going for the PCR. So at least it hasn’t been long to expose others I guess!

The rules say under 18s and double jabbed not to isolate, so school would expect eldest in (youngest school more chilled and will be happy not to have her!).

I think I need to get them both a PCR anyway yes. FFS. The rules make no sense.