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COVID in house

4 replies

SpringPen · 05/12/2023 12:42

Quick rundown
I've been unwell for 11 days now - sore throat, voice loss, cough, bit of a snotty nose. Four negative LFTs over course of illness.
DD2.5 not caught anything from me so far.
Older teen DC has come down with symptoms today - negative LFT.
DH has had a sore throat for a few days. Tested this morning - very positive.

Have we all had / got different things and most importantly, given DH has been wandering around and interacting with us all as normal for past few days, would you now do anything different?

Eldest DC has an NHS letter to say they may be eligible for treatment if catch Covid again.

What are others doing in this situation now? We have all had it before but not since Apr 22.

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ManchesterLu · 05/12/2023 13:08

I don't know why people still test. Use common sense.

Good hygiene always. Keep away from other people where possible when you have a contagious illness. I wouldn't be hugging/kissing in the home (unless they're small children and it'd be upsetting for them) but nor would I be confining people to 1 room either.

Just be sensible, look after yourselves, and get better. If your eldest DC becomes ill enough to require treatment, they'll get it.

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SpringPen · 05/12/2023 13:13

Thanks - this is what I had thought as well but useful to get some validation. I also wish we didn't need to test, but we tend to for the benefit of our eldest DC.

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JemimaFuddle · 05/12/2023 15:32

I don't know why people still test. Use common sense

The op says that her child is eligible for NHS covid treatment. Perhaps you coul use common sense to deduce that the ops child is vulnerable and glean why she might want to test...

dragonpen · 05/12/2023 23:34

It's good to test so you know what you might have had, especially as your child might be eligible for medication. Maybe there's not much point in anyone isolating now, but good ventilation is always worth trying for, even at this stage.

Re the medication - as I understood it it needs to be used fairly early on in the course of the illness, so I would contact someone straight away to say your eldest might have covid. I wouldn't wait for it to get really bad first.

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