Just did a terrible swab on dd

[Kb2942]

She has a cough. Just did the nose as no way we could effectively do the throat. She had asd.

I couldn't do the nose swab all in one go. Just had to do a couple seconds at a time and come out and in the nose again. Mainly because she kept thrashing her head about and I was there alone so didn't have Dp to help keep her arms down!

It also touched the skin on the bottom of her nose a couple times briefly. Does that matter?!

I think I did get a good swab but it was literally a couple seconds in, then out, then in. We did both nostrils. But I hope I went up far enough!

Anyone?

It should be ok. I had similar issue with my son, his results came back ok. 🤞🏻

I’m sure that is fine. My dc really really struggles with them - her latest pcr was more like 2 secs up a nostril, my hand, the car dashboard, a few tears, another second up a nostril and that still came back positive so was obviously enough for a sample they could analyse.

That or the car has Covid!

That’s very similar to what I did with my son, in and out a few times and didn’t do tonsil swab either, came back within 18 hours so no problems.

Don’t worry it should still be fine.
for you. It’s shitty having to do these things to our dc

Thank you all! They said results within 12-24 hours so fingers crossed it'll be negative... she's barely coughed all day!

We had an inconclusive test result after a disastrous swab on our toddler. Repeat effort worked. I'll not be testing her again (she's done about 8). It was so traumatic and I don't believe we should be regularly testing young children.

If the control line comes up it's fine to take results as normal

@custardbear

If the control line comes up it's fine to take results as normal

It was a pcr test!

They are horrific.

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