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Catching covid from household members

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AlexaShutUp · 05/10/2021 13:34

DD (16) did several positive lateral flow tests on Sunday evening. Developed symptoms on Monday, currently waiting for a pcr. I fully expect it to come back positive as she has been in close contact with other confirmed cases. She had one jab back in August.

DH and I are both fully jabbed but we'll aware that we may contract the virus anyway. Neither of us have symptoms so far, we are also awaiting pcr results and isolating in the interim. I have done several lateral flow tests, all negative so far.

Just wondering if we are going to get it or not. 🤔 I know that nobody can tell me this, but if you caught covid from a household member, please could you tell me how long it took before you started to show symptoms/test positive? And if your household members had covid but didn't pass it on, could you tell me how strictly you isolated from them?

We cannot really isolate within the house as we only have one bathroom. And in any case, I am not going to hold back from giving dd a hug when she is clearly feeling rubbish. We are trying to be careful but not OTT iyswim. Just wondered what others' experiences have been of covid cases in the household, and when (if at all) I should expect to get sick?!

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pinkpirlie · 05/10/2021 15:37

My boyfriend tested positive last week, has been poorly since Tuesday. We live together and share a bed, bathroom, etc. Although we haven't been cuddly since his diagnosis.

I haven't caught it, all my tests negative both LTF and PCR, and no symptoms at all.

We are both double vaccinated, and both believe we had Covid March 2020 too following return flights from Australia (not confirmed by test though).

I think it's hit or miss whether you'll catch it within the household.

NamiSwan · 05/10/2021 15:42

My 11 yo nephew tested positive for covid 12 days ago, nobody else in the house (brother, SIL, niece 16yo) had symptoms until my SIL (double jabbed) started showing symptoms a couple of days ago and tested positive today. They all thought everyone else in the house had escaped it by apparently not 😞

Waxonwaxoff0 · 05/10/2021 16:35

DS tested positive 6 days after me.

Sleepymumma · 05/10/2021 16:49

My DS aged 10 tested positive on 25th September, neither me or dh has tested positive since despite both having pcrs and daily lfts. We are both double vaccinated.
As soon as DS tested positive on lft he kept his distance from us. He had his own bathroom and pretty much kept to his bedroom and one other room in the house that dh and I didn’t go into for his isolation period. He’d started with symptoms 2 days before his positive test so I kept him off school but we didn’t really distance in those 2 days. He came out of isolation yesterday and I’m still testing daily until the end of this week.
DS caught it from school and there is not one case of any of the other children who tested positive passing it on to their parents who are also double jabbed.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 05/10/2021 16:51

@NamiSwan

Wow, that's a big gap! I've got COVID at the mo, isolating till end of Friday. I'll be on pins checking the teens daily till then I think.

Bumpsadaisie · 05/10/2021 16:58

Here's our household covid journey - with timings given from the first day one of us had symptoms. It took two weeks to get to us all.

Ds (9) symptoms on a Sunday (day 1) (headache and mild temp). Off school Monday. Negative LTF so back to school Tuesday (day 3) but suspect he was positive, understand now that LTFs can be false negative.

DD 12 - symptoms on the Weds (day 4) and Thurs (gastric headache mild fever). Tested positive LTF on the Thursday night. (Day 5). Tested DS also (by now symptomless!) and he also positive. We all began isolating.

All did PCR on the Friday (day 6) - children positive , parents negative.

DH symptoms at weekend - positive LTF on the Monday (day 9) and positive PCR on the Tuesday (day 10).

Me - felt rough the following Friday (day 13) positive PCR the Saturday (day 14).

In4mation · 05/10/2021 17:01

I was with a person at school on Friday, who tested positive on Sunday. Waiting to see if I get it…

Was thinking I might be ok, but reading this thread there doesn’t seem any pattern. Wait and see I guess.

Lollipop858 · 05/10/2021 17:15

My DD had covid last week, she’s out of isolation today, stayed in her room, none of us caught it!

Jackieweaverishere · 05/10/2021 17:33

I haven't (yet!) passed it on to my family.

Felt unwell Wednesday 29th, did PCR
I was isolating at home but I was convinced it was just a cold so didn't avoid family inside the house

Saturday 2nd family PCRs came back negative so leaped into action and isolated in the bedroom, waited on hand and foot by DH

So now it's the 5th and so far they're all testing negative on their LFTs.

Fwiw, I've tested negative on all the LFT I've done, including days I felt very rubbish.

I'm double jabbed, so is DH, and DD had one jab very recently, DS is too young. I'm wondering if being double jabbed made me less infectious to others as I haven't infected anyone at work either afaik.

Jackieweaverishere · 05/10/2021 17:35

I should add we've had a lot of windows open so we've been ventilating the house a lot

bizboz · 05/10/2021 17:40

DC1 had it. Not practical to isolate within the house. DH and I both double vaxxed - he got it and DC2 and I didn't, even though he probably spent less time with her.

Wigeon · 05/10/2021 17:42

DD tested positive on a PCR on the Sunday after being a close contact of someone with Covid two days before. No symptoms at that stage altho by the Monday she was fully symptomatic.

DH, DD2 and I (no symptoms) tested negative on a PCR on the Monday.

I started coughing on the Tuesday and tested positive (PCR) on the Thursday, had lots of symptoms by then. Double vaxxed.

DH felt a bit ropey and tested negative again (PCR) on the Friday. Double vaxxed.

We didn’t isolate from each other whilst all isolating for the 10 days at home (this was before the rules changed). So essentially DD and I got it but DH and DD2 didn’t.

user1000000000009 · 05/10/2021 17:51

Ds and I never caught it from dd and dh. We were all identified as close contacts and all of us got tested at the same time.

We didn't isolate away from them either.

Me and ds did lateral flow tests after they tested positive and every one was negative.

EllaPaella · 05/10/2021 18:31

My husband was positive just after Christmas last year. None of the rest of the house developed any symptoms.

Missmonkeypenny · 05/10/2021 18:39

DH had covid back last December - I avoided it, as did both DC (6 and 11 months at the time).

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AlexaShutUp · 05/10/2021 18:51

Thanks all. So interesting to read all of the different experiences.

DD's test has now come back positive. Can anyone advise me on when her isolation period will finish? She did a positive lateral flow on Sunday. Symptoms started on Monday. Positive PCR result today. Do we count the ten days from Sunday or Monday? By my count, she should be back in school on Thursday next week? Or would it be Friday?

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autumnboys · 05/10/2021 18:56

Ds15 had it a few weeks ago. He was happy to stay in his room, wore a mask when he came out. None of the rest of us got it. Dh & I are double jabbed, ds17 has had one, ds11 none.

Janaih · 05/10/2021 19:01

Dh got it first. Dd got it on day 5 and I got it on day 8. I was double jabbed, dh 1 jab.

Anecdotally I wonder if if took me longer to contract it because I wear glasses.

ninjaturtlesmum · 05/10/2021 19:22

@AlexaShutUp, my three children have Covid at the moment. Myself and DH not caught yet (one week in). Track and Trace will ring you soon and let you know the last day of isolation. From what I read though it’s ten days starting the day after positive pcr. If symptoms started after pcr, it’s ten days after the day they started with symptoms. So with that I reckon her isolation ends on Thursday and she goes back on Friday (if it was from pcr, isolation would end weds and she would be back Thursday)

CointreauVersial · 05/10/2021 19:28

DD1 came home from university with Covid at the end of term. We stuck her at one end of the house, with her own bathroom (her sister moved into the playroom and used our bathroom), and any meals were delivered/collected from the corridor outside her room. No direct contact, apart from a couple of chats in the garden, sitting at opposite ends of a long table.

None of us caught it, not even DD2, who hadn't been jabbed at that point.

We did have a vested interest in not catching it, as DH and I had a holiday booked.....12 days after DD1 came home. We made it!

I think it very much depends on the viral levels of the infected person. DD1 had had one jab, and had mild symptoms. She was also old enough to stay out of our way!

Timeisavirtue · 05/10/2021 20:49

I understand if your double jabbed or under 18 you don’t have to isolate unless you get symptoms. It was unclear last week but they’ve finally updated it to be clear.

Donatella · 05/10/2021 21:29

DD is back to school tomorrow after her 10 days isolation following a positive test. We haven't isolated her from the rest of the family as she is only 10, we've carried on hugging etc. No one else has caught it (confirmed by 5 PCR tests between 3 people and daily lateral flows for those of us leaving the house for work/school).

Passthecake30 · 05/10/2021 21:53

Ds had symptoms on wed eve, tested positive Thursday. I tested on the same day, possibly too early. Dd and DH tested Sunday, DH positive (asymptomatic). My legs ache and I have a cough, so I’ve send off for a postal test, though I’m testing negative on LFTs.

OddestSock · 05/10/2021 22:02

Dd2 tested positive on 11 September, DD1 14 September, both with symptoms. I took a PCR on 20 September to make sure i hadn't caught it during DD2's isolation and that came back positive. Symptoms started a couple of days later and all LFT were negative for me.

DH didn't catch it, even though we didn't isolate from each other and the kids. Both he and i are double jabbed.

Turquoisesea · 07/10/2021 11:26

My DD13 has it, started to fill ill on Sunday, tested positive on LFT on Monday, positive on PCR taken on Tuesday. I started having symptoms on Tuesday, negative on LFTs until this morning, sent off PCR to confirm. DD no jab me double jabbed. DH and DS no symptoms as yet and testing negative.

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