Toddler initial symptoms

[LunaNova]

Hi all.

DD (19 months) has been contacted as a close contact as a primary school age child at her Childminder's has tested positive. There was definitely a few hours of exposure on Thursday so I'm preparing for the worst.

Yesterday DD was hideously unwell with sickness and diarrhea, the sickness has subsided today. I've ordered a postal PCR test so I can test her while she's napping tomorrow but wondering whether the sickness could be an indicator. Of course it could be an unrelated stomach bug but it's hard when DD can't tell me how she's feeling.

Poor DD can't catch a break at the minute, she's just got over a nasty cold (tested and negative) which turned into a throat infection, now this stomach bug and covid threatening on the horizon. Hoping we can give it a swerve but feels a bit hopeless considering my DD was cuddling the positive child just a few days ago.

There are so many bugs going around but I asked a similar question on here (was worried about my 2 yr old) and a lot of posters said their toddlers had vomiting and diarrhoea

They also said mild cough and cold symptoms and really runny noses so it's really hard to tell

Hope your little one feels better soon x

@saltontoast thanks for your response!

It's just so worrying. Feel like I'm waiting for the inevitable, it doubly stings as I don't really go out much and typically this is the week I have plans for .

Hopefully it was just a stomach bug but having been in such close proximity to a confirmed case it's just difficult to judge. Hopefully PCR results will come through quickly and be negative to put my mind at ease!