My kids and I have fevers. Now what??

Do we bother to get tested or just lay low?

When can we be sure we're over it? Assuming we even have it.

You would have to be tested before you could ever find out if you're over it. It takes 2 consecutive negative tests.

Loss of Smell or Taste ?
Buy/borrow a Oxygen Saturation meter ( $50 )
Hope it goes well for you and your family

Using an ear sensor I got a 100.5 before dinner. Now I'm at 99.5. Kids in 99s also. Does that mean anything??

Since the kids are symptomatic, I am curious how old they are.

Adult? High school? Elementary? Toddlers?

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Neches21 said:

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Get tested.
If positive, then schedule a tele-health appointment with your doctor.
Your doctor will be able to consult you remotely if conditions worsen.
Take care of yourself. Get lots of rest and fluids

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Unless you experience serious critical symptoms then theres not much a doctor can do for you besides tell you to get rest and drink fluids.

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I agree. How will testing change your behavior or how you manage your symptoms? There's no specific treatment. If you're just curious, then yeah, get tested. It will also help public health officials track official numbers. But also remember that false negative rate is high, depending on the test brand and technique used. The big advantage to knowing you have COVID is knowing you need to take extra precautions to isolate and keep everyone away from you till you can safely get off isolation. So really, up to you.

Return to work guidance is wait until y'all are 72 hours symptom free and 10 days out from symptom onset. Alternatively, if you don't want to wait 10 days, you can do the 2 negative tests 24 hours apart and resolution of symptoms. But that just uses up resources unnecessary.

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Unless you experience serious critical symptoms then theres not much a doctor can do for you besides tell you to get rest and drink fluids.

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Dr told my wife that since she tested positive and because she did the tele-health appointment, he could prescribe steroids should her conditions worsen and this could be done via the web portal that they use.

I'm not sure how much the steroids could help, but having the ability to communicate directly with out doctor via email was reassuring.

Get tested for no other reason the than case count is that much more accurate and you don't have to second guess or question your personally strict quarantine.

About 10 days ago a friend of mine had a fever for 5 days, mostly low grade except for one 102. Tired but no other symptoms. Got tested by Quest who took almost a week to return a negative result. (Understand most tests come back with a day or two.) His family and he correctly quarantined the entire time and were very happy to get out!

Not sure about that, my daughter still waiting results for a test in Dallas 10 days ago. Useless.

Get tested. They say this disease can go south really quick. If you know what you are up against, their will be less delay when it's time to go to the hospital.

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Not sure about that, my daughter still waiting results for a test in Dallas 10 days ago. Useless.

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I got tested 9 days ago and still waiting for my results.

Y'all doing better today?

Aggie95 said:

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You would have to be tested before you could ever find out if you're over it. It takes 2 consecutive negative tests.

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The Texas State Department of Health Services goes by the CDC recommendations.

You can have two consecutive negative tests. I suspect that would mainly be used if it was felt that the original test was a false positive since you could test positive for several weeks afterwards.

If you are asymptomatic, it is ten days after the test.

If you are symptomatic, it is at least ten days after the appearance of symptoms and at least three days after the end of the fever and significant reduction in symptoms.

Get tested, but im sure you'll be fine.

Lots of things cause fever. I wouldn't get tested unless its important you rule it out.

Are you a medical professional ?

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Are you a medical professional ?

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No, and I suspect most who answered are either. Why do you ask?

It's a bad one. Congrats.

Bluecat_Aggie94 said:

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Right... so the one person who give different advice you question... about right for these days.

I stand by my opinion. One symptom, wait. It's a virus, there is no medical cure. The vast majority will be told "yup, you have it" and sent home and told not to come back unless symptoms get serious.

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I'm a doc and agree with this.

At this point it primarily helps with epidemiological data, so is useful in that regard. However if you're sick, just assume that you have it and do the 10 days since symptom onset and 72 hours since symptom resolution return to work guidance.

If for some reason you need to get back to work sooner, a test can be useful, however with the false negative rate as high as it is, probably better to just assume you have it.