Young kids really suffering from covid

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DD5 and DS2 came down with symptoms within hours of each other on Tuesday/Wednesday. LFTs are negative but the timing fits with contact 3 days earlier with Covid positive MIL, and aside from that they had been apart for days due to DS being in hospital.

DD had it in September and was asymptomatic. I am surprised at how unwell they have both been. Symptoms include vomiting, stomach cramps, fatigue and fever. They both picked up on Friday afternoon and we thought they'd beaten it, but we were back into it from yesterday morning.

I have read a lot about children having it very mildly. I can only assume they got a massive dose from MIL (DH and I didn't catch it but both had it recently and the ONS reports our antibodies as being at an elevated level). How much longer is this likely to continue? It feels never ending!

Me & my group of friends had this a few weeks ago with all our children - they all got fevers, terrible sore throats, vomiting in some cases and generally very ill. One family, who hasn't had covid before, tested positive for covid (both parents & both children). The other three families, plus many other children at school, who had all had covid in around December/January, all took PCRs and tested often with laterals but all were negative. For all of them, the children got ill (to varying degrees) but they parents didn't. My conclusion is that it wasn't covid, but the family who hadn't had it before caught it on top due to their immune system being wiped out by the other bug. One of my children was much more ill than they had been with covid, one was less.

Sorry to hear that others have suffered. Mine have both had a bit more of an appetite this afternoon but DD has started with diarrhoea and both have strange light brown stools. Horrible.

Really don't think it's a stomach bug as I would expect DH and me to have caught it if so. We have been fine, despite not being especially careful with avoiding the rivers of vomit.

In the grand scheme it hasn't been too bad but my kids don't get ill very often and never for this long so it's been a bit new for all of us.

@namechange76217052684 hmmm interesting

My dd had Covid and was quite ill with a high temperature, cough, sore throat and vomiting. She was iil for the full 10 days of isolation and tested positive for the full isolation period too. She is 18 days past her symptoms starting and she’s still not 100%. Last week she was exhausted every day after school, I’m just glad it’s now the Easter holidays.