Does in-house isolation really work?

[YukoandHiro]

DH has symptoms. Came on midday today. We've shared a car and a bed within the last 24 hours, but he's now isolating in our attic room and getting a PCR test tomorrow AM. Is it worth him being up there? We have 2 children so i'd rather he just kept his distance even if it's the flu or whatever

I have heard of people in the same households who didn't catch it but I think it just down to luck.

Personally I didn't even bother trying. Too much faff and I'm a single parent so it would have been neglectful to isolate from DS. He did catch it but to be honest it was more convenient for us to have it at the same time and get it over with rather than me have to take 2 lots of time off work!

My work colleagues isolated from his wife and son when he got symptoms and they didn't get it but that was pre delta variant.

My eldest son (16) had covid in April, he isolated in his room and nobody else in the house caught it.
My husband caught covid in July, he also isolated after his symptoms started and nobody else in the house caught it then either.
As far as aware, myself and our other 3 children haven't had covid yet.

DC1 is 16 and tested positive for covid, confirmed by PCR. The rest of us tested negative and have continued to do throughout DC1's isolation (which has been taking place in their bedroom, only leaving to use the bathroom). Time will tell if it's been successful but we have tried!

We've had covid in the house for 14 days now. My DH and DD are both still well and testing negative. I've stayed in one room as did DS who also had it, but we're sharing a bathroom. I wear a mask if moving through the house and I've been eating meals in the garden for a bit of variety.

Ok well think I'll keep him up there til his pcr result is back...

Adult DD had it. She stayed in her room and no-one else caught it.
I left her meals outside her bedroom door.

The positive person on our house is 8yo. No way am I shutting her in her room for the next week.
10yo is distancing as much as possible, as she will need to go to school if her test is negative, but we aren't going any where else. Food delivery due tomorrow.

(DD1 and I may have had mild symptoms a week ago... as in headaches. I didn't even know headache was a symptoms until DD2 was sent home from school yesterday with a headache and nausea. I have regular migraines and hormonal headaches and used to ignoring them)

My 13yr DD caught it and the rest of us remained negative. She likes to stay in her room anyway, but we asked her to come down and eat with us/spend time out of her room, but we just didn’t get too close to her (much to her delight !). In our eyes, her mental health was more important to us than the risk of us getting the virus, and we didn’t want to make her feel like she couldn’t be around us.
She had her own toilet, and we wiped kitchen taps etc after she had touched them. We also kept windows open all day and night.

I’m currently positive. DC are not. I’m staying in my room as much as possible and wearing a mask when I leave it, but they’re too small to be properly independent so I’m expecting them to get it. It’s crap. We’ve had to come up with a sort of reverse cuddle so I can still comfort them without breathing on them. I suspect this is futile too

I'm on day 8 now. So far the rest of the family are still symptom free. PCRs came back negative as well earlier in the week. I've been in the bedroom, DH has been sleeping on the sofa. Seems to have worked so far.

I know a couple of families it seemed to work for, and it was before they were vaccinated too.

However both have large houses with spare room with en suite etc. No way we would manage it effectively in ours I don't think.

When DS2 had Covid last year, nobody else caught it. We were unvaccinated then.

DS1 caught it last week and passed it to me. He's day 8, I'm day 6. So far DS2 doesnt have it (though he had Covid last year) and DH doesn't. Both DH and I are double vaxxed.

The pisitive case is always confined to our own room and bathroom, walk through house in masks to get to garden.

Definitely worth keeping separate spaces.

I might add that on both occasions my 15 yr old sons were more than happy to be confined to their rooms. Little change...

My DS has been absolutely obsessive about staying in his room since he tested positive. It was like he was in prison with me leaving his meals outside his door and him putting the dirty plate out later. And he'd ring a bell if he left his room to go to the bathroom so we didn't accidentally encounter him.
We've all caught it (and we're all double vaxxed) so I've told him to come out now. He is out of his quarantine tomorrow anyway.

Ds1 isolated in his room 23ish hours a day but came out for meals and to use the bathroom (small flat so it didn't feel fair or possible for him to isolate from us completely).

None of the other 3 of us got it according to PCRs on probably day 4 after he was infected and then regular lateral flows.

dH was positive- admittedly the weather was warmer, but I kept all windows open the whole time, we ate as a family in the garden.he played with the DC outside, he isolated mainly in spare room
With separate bathroom and none of us caught it! Good luck!!

Dd isolated in her room when she had Covid in August. None of us caught it despite her having symptoms for 4 days until testing positive. Dd3 currently has it and is also now isolating in her room, with trips down to the garden for fresh air and exercise!

We used a separate bathroom and kept all windows and doors open as much as possible.