Stopping spread within household

[Moogie246]

Son 10 has tested positive while my pcr was negative although we were both exposed through the same contact about a week ago. We've been attached at the hip all Christmas so I'm expecting to get it from him anyway in next couple of days, but trying to avoid OH getting it who has been working all over the holidays and on the house much less. Are we fighting a losing battle or is it worth me and son sharing a room at night, alongside windows open, cleaning etc?

Anything's worth a try, but no guarantees!

From experience of our house and friends’ households, if it is Delta you might manage it, if it is Omicron you probably won’t.
When DH and dd had Delta they stayed in one room together in the day, DH slept in there too. I put food outside the door, bathroom window and their room window were both left open , and the bathroom and all door handles cleaned after use.
I didn’t catch it and nor did my other child.

Contrasting this we have friends with probable Omicron, even though the family member with covid isolated as soon as he came home, they have all caught it.

I tested positive on the 23rd and haven't isolated from DH or DS. Neither of them have testing positive on pcr or lft since xx

We tried.

Symptomless DH tested positive on a LFT on the 15th. He literally shut the bedroom door & put some things outside for me and didn't come out again. Sprayed everything including plates etc with detol etc. Had an en-suite. I wore a mask to take food up to him & collect plates and he didn't open the door until I'd gone.

I still caught it 4/5 days later.

Presume omicron as he had been out to London.

Worth a try. I know a family where one child and parent caught it and the other child and parent not. And that was with Omicron.

Four of us in our house and two are positive
two negative

I have been sleeping on an air bed in my sons room and the other two in their own rooms

We have two bathrooms so I share with my son and my hubbie and daughter share

We keep windows open all the time and wear our masks inside when we are in the same room

I serve all meals and drinks

Spray all surfaces etc daily

So far on day 8 my son and I are still
negative on daily lateral flows 🤞

Hope this helps x

Ds1 (23) tested positive without symptoms last Tuesday and has been keeping to his room since then. Ds2(20), DH and I all still negative.

When DS had covid, the rest of the household managed to avoid it. He chose to spend most of his time in his room. I cleaned the sink/ taps/ toilet daily. That was it really.

I’m a week into having omicron, and the other 4 household members haven’t caught it. We haven’t isolated or distanced, just carried on as normal. They have all had delta previously though, so maybe they have some immunity from that.

We are a family of four. On day seven, upon receiving my second negative LFT, my husband received his first positive.

Apart from sleeping in separate rooms and avoiding close physical contact, we largely carried on as normal.

Two DC are yet to test positive.

4 of us, son been positive since boxing day. I took him for PCR but so far none of us have caught it. He's stayed in his room mostly but I've been in and out and he's been arguing with his sister as normal 🤣

I had it recently, one family member caught it, the other four didn’t. Only one old enough to be vaxxed, others just didn’t pick it up.
No special measures, washed my hands as normal, cleaned as normal, hugged as normal. Am hugely surprised at the lengths others have gone to. Impressed and amazed at the energy people have.
Perhaps if I didn’t have small children I would have slunk off to a room and been waited on? Sounds quite nice. My dh would never have managed. We carried on as normally as we could except I didn’t leave the house for a bit.

Prob was delta though.

@pollyparrot45

We tried.

Symptomless DH tested positive on a LFT on the 15th. He literally shut the bedroom door & put some things outside for me and didn't come out again. Sprayed everything including plates etc with detol etc. Had an en-suite. I wore a mask to take food up to him & collect plates and he didn't open the door until I'd gone.

I still caught it 4/5 days later.

Presume omicron as he had been out to London.

We did this. My DH and DD didn't have it. They didn't catch it all.

I have just had Covid, negative as of yesterday. Live with my partner and our toddler, breastfed toddler, we all share a bed, kissed them both lots, hugged and have basically just been the opposite of socially distant and neither of them have tested positive. Toddler even had a PCR as he’s got a cough and nothing.

I haven’t even been cleaning any more than usual as I thought they’ll have been exposed to the virus before I knew I had it anyway.