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Isolating with a family

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Whataroyalannoyance · 22/12/2021 19:03

This might sound stupid, but how are people isolating in a family home? We have a tiny house, 1 bathroom. Are you staying away from your family? Or just living it like a 'normal' virus?

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MrsTaytodarling · 22/12/2021 19:32

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alongwayhome · 22/12/2021 19:49

Well it depends - when DH had it, I wanted him to isolate from me because I have a vulnerable relative I care for and had only had my booster a few days prior. He had the en suite bedroom and his office. In a tiny house I wouldn't bother unless any of you are particularly vulnerable.

tobypercy · 22/12/2021 20:48

If you need to then you designate one room for the isolating person, and they wipe down the bathroom, handles, switches etc. every time they go outside their room.
But it's not easy, and in a small house I would only do that if one of the other people was vulnerable for some reason.

Stompythedinosaur · 22/12/2021 20:53

I am not expecting my dc to isolate within the home, I think it would be too emotionally harmful. Dp or I would stay in the bedroom and wipe the bathroom down after use.

upupandawaytoday · 22/12/2021 20:55

My two dc recently had it and whilst everyone said isolate them in their rooms I just couldn't! Felt cruel (8 and 11y) we locked down together and did baking, cuddled up watching films shared food and carried on as normal.

Anyway it's been and gone, neither had any symptoms and I've still not caught it

ilovespinach · 22/12/2021 22:29

We can't isolate from each other here and only two out of five of us has 'it'. I'm ventilating every day and keeping the windows open for as long as possible but that's about it.

MotherWol · 22/12/2021 22:45

DD (5) and I have just tested positive; it’s been going through her class so it was pretty inevitable really. Neither of us have much in the way of symptoms; our home is small, no spare room, and we also have a 6 month old. DH tested negative, but is WFH so he’s just going to isolate with us for the next ten days as if he was positive. TBH it would be too difficult for him and the baby to isolate from me and DD and probably a bit pointless since it’s clearly very mild and he’s triple-jabbed.

DukkaTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly · 22/12/2021 22:45

When my primary aged children had covid recently we just carried on as normal. I couldn’t isolate them in the house away from us, and neither would we have done. We watched films, baked, did some school work depending on how they felt.

DukkaTheHallsWithBoughsOfHolly · 22/12/2021 22:46

Forgot to add, neither DH or I caught it.

Sparkle275 · 22/12/2021 22:52

My DD aged 11 caught it first and we didn't isolate from her. She felt pretty unwell the first 2 days so i was comforting her and making sure she was OK. All of us caught it in the end but we muddled through together.

superking · 22/12/2021 22:54

We've had two separate positive cases in the house in the last month. First was DH, he pretty much stayed in the spare room for the first 4-5 days after testing positive (felt rubbish so was happy to stay in bed!) but he came out to use kitchen, bathroom when he needed it. When he felt better we carried in sleeping apart and we avoided spending long periods in the same room until his isolation period finished, but he didn't propt isolate for us.

DS1 (8) tested positive last week but asymptomatic - we haven't distanced from him at all at all.

So far both DS2 and I have avoided it both times - negative tests on PCR and daily LFT.

slaybell · 22/12/2021 22:54

We had it in Jan 2020 and didn't isolate. Not possible with 3 children. Both DH and I had it so someone had to look after them!

Livefortherain · 22/12/2021 22:57

DD8 caught it recently.. we didn't bother isolating her as she doesn't like being alone. Me and DS9 tested positive 3 days after her anyway.. then DH a couple of days after us! So we were all stuck with eachother anyway.
DS3 didn't catch it though and he still sleeps in-between me and DH!

whyarentiskinnyet · 22/12/2021 22:59

We didn't isolate, impossible in a small 2 bee. DH never got it when me and DS were both positive

Icequeen01 · 22/12/2021 23:01

I've currently got Covid for the second time. On both occasions we decided I had probably infected both my DH and adult DS by the time I tested positive so I didn't isolate. They both tested positive 5 days later.

This time I am day 6 and so far they are still negative. Only difference this time is DH and I have had our boosters and DS has had 2 jabs.

harper30 · 22/12/2021 23:27

I tested positive today, my husband and daughter (3) are negative but we're not even going to attempt to isolate me/keep separate.
Up until that positive LFT I was hugging and kissing them both so it's inevitable. I've got a pcr tomorrow to confirm it but 4 lateral flows can't be wrong.
I'm pretty much asymptomatic, we're just treating us all as having it and isolating together and daily LFTs for the pair of them to keep tabs on them.

NotSorry · 22/12/2021 23:54

My DD just tested positive with an LFT - she'd been bunking in with her brother as my eldest son and his gf arrived yesterday for Christmas. We've now put her in my office and designated one bathroom just for her - that's as much as we can manage with 7 adults in the house

BogRollBOGOF · 23/12/2021 00:13

Stick the contaminated person in the garage/ shed/ wheelie bin?

We would have a spare bedroom but it can't be used because it's got the mother of all office desks dominating it, and the bed's been lumped up against the wall for nearly two years to accommodate it.

The rules/ guidence were dreamt up by people without these logistical issues and without any intention of following them. We're dealing with people who have a spare homes avaliable.

In the real world, families have to live together. Children need to be hugged. Bathrooms need to be shared.

chiefcha · 23/12/2021 00:22

DD10 has it at the moment and despite DH and I being very nervous about catching it, we're just carrying on as normal in the house. The way I see it is that we had close contact with her for 48 hours before she developed symptoms when she was most likely contagious, and for the following 24 hours until we got the positive PCR - by that point it felt largely pointless to attempt anything different as we'd already been exposed to it for 3 days.

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Whataroyalannoyance · 23/12/2021 09:03

*The rules/ guidence were dreamt up by people without these logistical issues and without any intention of following them. We're dealing with people who have a spare homes avaliable.

In the real world, families have to live together. Children need to be hugged. Bathrooms need to be shared.*

Those are my thoughts exactly.
All very well to say that you have to do xyz, but in reality it's not possible without a house that can accommodate it all

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