To not lft her!

[Userno36372846]

Dd has a hospital app on Wednesday, outpatient! Been asked to do an lft prior to appointment.

She's had covid twice in the last 2-3 months, last time a month ago and fine now. I would say it's extremely unlikely she has it again.

I don't mind doing one on my myself but feel like can't put Dd through it again! She has some degree of sen and testing her is awful! I don't want to do it when she has no symptoms!

In a hospital you will potentially be coming into contact with vulnerable people so I’d test, though I appreciate it sounds difficult.

It is hard but hospitals ask you to test because many patients are very vulnerable. It would be selfish not to

And they may not allow the appointment if the test is a requirement

Irresponsible not to, isn't it?

Since you seem to know better whether a LFT is clinically needed, just cancel her appointment.

I would for a hospital appointment. You don't know who you might come into contact with when sharing a lift or sitting in a waiting room. It could be very serious for some other patients.

Also if the HCPs you come into contact with catch it, that could have serious implications for others with appointments and/or operations having to be cancelled.

Can’t you just pin her down to do it? Short and swift? I know it’s awful but it’s only a few minutes of pain.

I do a nasal swab on my son whilst he's asleep. Doesn't wake up.

No, I would just test you. I'm not doing any more testing on my 7 year old - too stressful and traumatic for him.

I am an immunocompromised cancer patient going to hospital at least once a week for appointments. Covid is dangerous for me both because of the state of my immune system, and because even if I didn’t get it too badly it would affect (delay) my ongoing chemotherapy treatment.
Just do a test - there is a reason why they have asked you to!

When I had a hospital appointment that required a LFT - they asked to see the results email from with I registered it on govt website. If I hadn't had that they'd have cancelled my appointment.

Also - I do think it's quite awful not to test. There may be all sorts of people including those who cannot vaccinate for medical reasons, pregnant women and immunosuppressed people. Catching Covid can be extremely dangerous for all three groups.

While it is "unlikely" she has it, the fact she's had it twice in 3-4 months shows exactly that people can get it repeatedly, and why hospital wants you to test.

LFT tests are unpleasant, but the consequences of not testing could be far worse for other people.

It's totally irresponsible to not test in a hospital full of ill people.

I'm over the whole thing, have been for a while but I absolutely would for a hospital appointment.

You know you test her if you are going into the hospital. It’s incredibly selfish not to. You could impact hundreds of others if she ends up spreading covid to to whoever sees her.

Did anyone read my op? She'd had covid twice. She's autistic and testing her is traumatic. Should I really pin her down to test her before being anxious about the actual app itself? The message just says to lft if you have one... doesn't say it's compulsory.

She last had covid a month ago so is technically exempt from routine testing!

I thought if you had covid they tell you not to do an LFT for 90 days? Apart from to release you from self isolation early of course.

Have you asked the hospital if they still require this given she old has covid recently and could technically still show up as positive? Do you have her PCR result still to prove when she had it?

If not, and if they say she needs to do it then yes I would, regardless of the difficulty - because it's about the other people that will be there. How would you feel if you two caught covid there because someone else didn't want to do a test? In particular if you got very sick from it and hospitalised.

@Tillow4ever

I thought if you had covid they tell you not to do an LFT for 90 days? Apart from to release you from self isolation early of course.

Have you asked the hospital if they still require this given she old has covid recently and could technically still show up as positive? Do you have her PCR result still to prove when she had it?

If not, and if they say she needs to do it then yes I would, regardless of the difficulty - because it's about the other people that will be there. How would you feel if you two caught covid there because someone else didn't want to do a test? In particular if you got very sick from it and hospitalised.

Yeah, I still have record of her pcr results. I've re-read message from hospital and it's not even asking for proof of negative lft. They just say to do one if you can, if it's positive to stay away, if no lft is done they will do a screening questionnaire on arrival. I don't think people realise how traumatic testing a child with sen is if they hate it, my eldest is worse. When they had covid we had to hold them down to get the swab done and they did the full 10 days as couldn't lft them to release from isolation early.

She had a scar on her eye and it's going to be checked. Feel like that's traumatic enough as it is.

I will do on one on myself.

I've had covid too, within in the last 90 days but will test myself!

I’m assuming that she will also not be wearing a mask? Please, please, test her first.

My child could be one of the other children in the waiting room and covid could kill her. Not an exaggeration; we have an emergency plan of what to do if she tests positive and have massively limited our lives to avoid the possibility. We can’t avoid hospital though.

If it were any other setting I’d agree with not putting your child through it (and yes, I do understand how awful they are; my autistic child who also has many medical needs is also not a fan). But hospital with a waiting room full of children, many of whom will be still extremely vulnerable…

She's fine with wearing a mask. Not that I usually make her wear one but might pop one on her tomorrow!

I don’t get it. You love your child and it hurts you that she is I’ll. but you’d happily risk other peoples’s sick children in a hospital.

When did autism become the only condition that mattered? It’s really weird. Physical illnesses like cancer are no big deal apparently.

I don’t really understand the point of threads like this. You clearly don’t want to test your dd, for quite plausible reasons, however going to a hospital with vulnerable people in should override that. At the end of the day, you are going to make the decision to do what’s best for your situation therefore it doesn’t really matter what a bunch of people on the internet say, especially if they don’t agree with you!

@Userno36372846

Did anyone read my op? She'd had covid twice. She's autistic and testing her is traumatic. Should I really pin her down to test her before being anxious about the actual app itself? The message just says to lft if you have one... doesn't say it's compulsory.

You won't get any sensible answers on here unfortunately just mass hysteria

In your situation no I wouldn’t bother

In these very specific circumstances where your child will be mixing with vulnerable children, many of whom won’t be vaccinated, you really really need to test.

I probably won’t die if I get covid, but getting it means I can’t be treated for the thing that will kill me. I imagine there’s many others in the same position.