Household isolating

[Theforest]

DS15 just confirmed positive PCR. He is mainly staying in his room since Sunday evening when got lft. Walks round house in mask when needs to. Own bathroom. Seems ok for now but seems extreme for 10 days.

What did others do? If DS10 gets it, he wouldn't be able to spend time like that on his own.

And what do you do if one parent gets it. Sleep in different rooms??

This is exactly what we did when my daughter got Covid - she was happy to stay in her room and mask up if she was around the rest of the household. None of the rest of us caught it. 10 days isn't really that long and many teens love being in their rooms anyway.

DS11 has it (so far), PCR confirmed earlier today. He is not isolating in his room (mainly cos one of our WFH spaces is there!) and we are still having meal times together. As we only have one bathroom no choice and we aren't mask wearing indoors either. He needs hugs as he's feeling unwell so dammed if we're going by zee rules.

DS12 has just recovered from Covid.

He mainly stayed in his bedroom (with unfettered access to the laptop and waitress service), but shared bathroom. He mostly popped on a mask when he came out of his room and we mainly put one on when we went in to see him.

He was totally happy with this, in fact it was his choice – he says because he didn't want us to catch it, but I think he rather enjoyed hibernating.

He was moderately ill. Obviously I wouldn't have made him stay in his room if he hadn't been happy. He came out of isolation yesterday (11th day since symptoms started) and none of us seem to have caught it - 2 vaccinated over-40s and a 9 year old.

My dd has just had a positive LFT. Waiting for PCR. There’s no way I’d leave her to isolate alone (she’s 9).
We’ve been vaccinated, we are keeping all the windows open and the house well ventilated.

We had three positives and a negative. In hindsight we could have tried to isolate the negative as he got pretty ill. However sitting in a car to go to the test center with three positive cases probably did the trick. Who knows if we could have kept him clear.

@SummerHouse I agree!! I had to drive DS and they don't let you open the windows while he is doing his test. Not ideal!!!

There’s 6 of us here, me and DH double vacs and 4 DC’s. We’re on day 9 here since DS tested positive and nobody else has caught it (no symptoms and daily negative lft’s plus negative pcrs). We’re not isolating from each other because we have only one bathroom and the 3 boys share a room. Also DS is a twin and even though they’re 13 they’re always touching each other and wrestling etc 🙄 but thankfully none of us have caught it and as we’re nearing 2 weeks it hopefully means we’ve missed it this time around!

We didn’t isolate any dc when positive

Dd12 got it last Sunday then dh Thursday and me this Sunday. She has been mostly isolating in her room. Not ideal but she was asymptomatic so we don't know when she first caught it. If your child is happy to isolate and old enough I would definitely encourage it. I've felt really ill and would try to avoid catching it if you can.

Dd and ds were both happy to isolate. However, dd had it in the summer when the weather was good so we spent lots of time together in the garden and I also had some ffp3 masks for cuddles.

Ds had it a month ago and had a couple of days hanging out in his room/wearing a mask in living areas. Again I wore an ffp3 mask to hang out with him some of the time. However I tested positive within 48 hours and DH decided he would inevitably get it then and we abandoned the whole isolation thing. With hindsight I wish I'd continued with it as DH was really quite unwell and still isn't back to normal yet,despite being double jabbed.

Totally nothing un healthy about a nation of youngsters made to/encouraged to isolate in their room for 10 days. No doubt fixated on the internet/social media. Personally I take the health of my children very seriously and would never subject them to such measures. The fact some parents consider this is shocking.

When my youngest DD had it 6 weeks ago, we all just carried on as normal. She sat with us on the sofa, we hugged, ate together, etc, and no one wore a mask. No one else in the household got it. (We did precautionary lateral flows and a PCR as recommended by Test and Trace). I can’t believe that any parent would not want to take proper care of their child whilst they were ill. What sort of message does this send to children?!

Depends on the age of the child and their disposition. Don't think my teens would particularly mind staying in their room. Would be hard to spot the difference with one of them.

Our teens got it in the summer so we sat together outside but indoors they stayed in their room as much as possible. Our living room is pretty big so they did come down a bit each evening but stayed on the other sofa which is 2m from the one dh and I sat on. I left disinfectant wipes and spray in the kitchen and bathroom with the expectation that everyone used it after they had finished. Dh and I didn't catch it. When dh and I finally did catch it a few weeks ago only youngest ds age 15 was at home. We slept separately until we were both confirmed pcr positive but then felt there was little point keeping apart. Ds distanced from us rather than us shutting ourselves away. He usually spends a lot of time in his room anyway so this seemed the best option. I wore a mask while cooking but apart from that we just kept a couple of windows open. Ds didn't get re-infected. All you can do is look at the risks versus benefits of isolating in the family/home. With younger kids or spouses chances are the damage is already done.