How long are you contagious for?

[snowmansballs]

Any healthcare experts or people in the know...

Just wondering how long after a positive test are you infectious from? Ds is now on day 8 of isolation and I'm tentatively hoping that the rest of the household have escaped catching it as we are all still negative so far.

As isolating people are allowed out again after 10 days it suggests that infection rate following that point is small. So does that mean if we get past the 10 day mark and still test negative we are in the clear?

I took LF tests when I had it out of curiosity. I was positive until day 9. On day 8, the line was really faded (it had been strong red) & day 9 negative. Continued to be negative on day 10 & 13 as well. Then I stopped my experiment 😂

You’ve probably avoided it from your kid but if you’ve still all been going out & about, still a chance you could come down with it shortly from somewhere else!

We did same as Bobholl - kids were completely negative by day 7, I was completely negative on the lateral flow by day 12 - as I could see the lines fading each day we all isolated from DH (who avoided it) until our lateral flows were clear and it seemed to work for us

That's interesting. I just did LFT on ds and the line is still very prominent, no different really to what it looked like on his first test. Guessing he's still pretty infectious then. I thought the viral load might dwindle down after a certain point.

Although I'm confused now because doesn't it say you can test positive for 90 days after having covid? Or is that just on PCR?

That's just PCR