Isolating from young kids

[Yellow85]

I’ve tested positive on ltf, PCR results for whole house pending. My kids are 5 and 7 - what have people been doing re isolating from kids? My husband is here whilst we await results, but if he’s negative he’ll likely revert to daily LTFs and go back to work as he doesn’t get paid and double jabbed. He also works outside and can be on his own.

That would leave me with the kids at home whilst I try to work (can’t get them to school). It’s not practical to isolate fully, but have people just been cracking on as normal at home or have you all be a bit smarter with getting too close/hugs etc?

I don’t know what’s for the best tbh. Part of me hopes we all just come back positive and can have some time together at home as normal.

Husband and I both have covid at the moment . We not isolating from our 9yr old - our house isn’t big enough and it’s not practical to do that either. Testing them every day but negative so far both on pcr and lateral flows and they have no symptoms yet either.

@Bobholll

Honestly. I despair that people are even considering isolating from their kids. Just why?! Excluding those with vulnerabilities obviously. I don’t understand this fear of covid anymore if you are reasonably young & healthy and in particular young kids who barely get symptoms.. do you hide away when you have a cold?! Cos to kids & young, vaccinated adults, that’s basically what it. I’ve felt pretty poorly for a few days but it was like a super bad cold. Now I’m better I’m happy to take my chances catching it again so long as life can be fairly normal.

We are being extra cautious because we’ve got my DS’s birthday party and a holiday coming up. If anyone else in the house tests positive they will need to be cancelled. If this wasn’t the case we would have completely cracked on as normal. DS will be devastated if we have to cancel his birthday, he didn’t get a party last year due to covid and has been so excited about it.

Nope, no isolating or distancing at all when DS tested positive - didn't even occur to us.. Just household life as normal.

@Bobholll

Honestly. I despair that people are even considering isolating from their kids. Just why?! Excluding those with vulnerabilities obviously. I don’t understand this fear of covid anymore if you are reasonably young & healthy and in particular young kids who barely get symptoms.. do you hide away when you have a cold?! Cos to kids & young, vaccinated adults, that’s basically what it. I’ve felt pretty poorly for a few days but it was like a super bad cold. Now I’m better I’m happy to take my chances catching it again so long as life can be fairly normal.

The only reason we would consider is to stop them having to isolate for a further ten days. Say they caught it on day 7 then they’d have effectively had to stay home for 17 days and miss a whole lot of school!!

I have had it this week. DC are 5 and 7.
I have done my best but couldn't keep away completely. OH obv did school runs as I was stuck home.
OH slept in spare room. I avoided touching any food for anyone else that wasn't going to be cooked before consuming, left it to OH to serve and touch plates, cutlery, cups etc. Have washed my hands a squillion times a day and tried to touch DC as little as possible, particularly faces. When littlest insisted on a hug I was v careful to hold breath or breathe in the other direction. But 5yo don't care about microbes so it's tricky.
Pretty sure that eldest DC gave it to me in the first place so seemed pointless isolating from that one as they'd be unlikely to catch it twice in a month.
Other DC and OH are negative so far.

I didn't isolate from my youngest when she tested positive for covid. We just lived as normal. Ds and I didn't catch it.

Ds1 got a positive lateral flow last week, I pulled dc2 and 3 out of school and we all went for pcr testing, turns out dc1 was negative but dc2 was positive and asymptomatic. I've kept us all at home as isolating isn't possible for ds2 as he is 7 and quite often bed hops between ds1 and ds3 bedrooms. We have done 2 follow up pcr tests at day 5 and day 9 and noone else has caught covid.

DS1 has also tested positive whilst DH and DS2 are negative. As DH will be going to work, don’t see any point in the rest of us staying away from each other so normality has return in the house

I tested positive last weekend, everyone else negative. We have continued living as usual, symptom checking for the two DC. I couldn't isolate from them. DH would have no problem if it was him positive