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So my 5 year old daughter who has asthma coughed a couple of times in her sleep last night (not unusual) and then complained she had a poorly stomach this morning. No temperature or cough. Mrs rang the GP just to double check. Advised she had asthma and normal coughs. He said as it’s a new cough (which isn’t there now) self isolate for 14 days.
 
The advice originally was for a persistent new cough or fever

Now it's a new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly

Why don't GPs even understand the advice the Government/NHS are giving?
 
Look online. (NHS or Gov websites). I think bear66 is right. I saw something in one of those that described it as a persistent dry cough, that kept on and on.

Good luck with it either way.
 
Tell me about it. She told him she has asthma just wanted some advice and he said well it’s a new cough so therefore you need to self isolate. I can see why people are gonna risk working when this is the advice
 
I can also see why you're concerned about an asthmatic 5 year old. If it were me I'd panic, frankly.

Good luck with it anyway.
 
I’ve got her inhalers to pick up from redcar yet. Probs get my stepdad to get them for me later. Haven’t stock piled anything ha
 
I've got a 5 yr old and has been doing exactly the same. But the cough is just now and again and certainly not persistent. We are self isolating because of me, but her cough isn't concerning me so far, especially as she always has a cold or a cough or some other illness.
 
bear66 said:
The advice originally was for a persistent new cough or fever

Now it's a new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly

Why don't GPs even understand the advice the Government/NHS are giving?
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My Dad was due a check-up at the doctors on Monday so I told him to ask about how coronavirus might affect him. He had a heart attack a few years ago, has since had a-fib which resulted his heart going into heart failure, is on all kind of meds to keep his heart in rhythm and is currently awaiting an ablation to sort it out, I think he's been diagnosed as having one of the lower stages of heart disease. Anyway his GP told him "you're not at risk it's only affecting people with lung problems such as COPD" and I was like ermmm... I'm pretty sure you're vulnerable based on what I've read. A few days later the government issue the vulnerable list and he is in fact high risk.

I was thinking how could I know that he was high risk and yet the GP didn't?
 
Hope all is well coops with your daughter.

Your point is bang on though, if everyone self isolates at the first sign of a cough or a tiny bit of a sore throat the infrastructure will just crumble.

We need better guidelines like 'Fever' is considered the line for instance.

I know someone in the NHS that has been told to self isolate by her boss due to having a sore throat ..
 
ABHBORO said:
A doctor on the radio said a new cough that you have had for over half a day.
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Right... This is the worst thing about it all, we're going to self isolate people most of whom will not have it.
Those people are then (it's human nature) think they are invincible and that they have had it .. then they might actually get it and have to isolate again or even worse not have it again and self isolate again.

It makes no sense without mass testing the strategy is completely useless.
 
Alvez_48 said:
Right... This is the worst thing about it all, we're going to self isolate people most of whom will not have it.
Those people are then (it's human nature) think they are invincible and that they have had it .. then they might actually get it and have to isolate again or even worse not have it again and self isolate again.

It makes no sense without mass testing the strategy is completely useless.
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In the absence of mass testing then continuing social distancing will limit any transmission if someone has self-isolated when they haven't got it.
Social distancing is the most important thing we can do right now to limit the avenues of transmission, short of enforced lockdown.

Don't forget, the capacity of the NHS to cope and save lives is as much part of the "protect the vulnerable" argument as is the protection of the sick and elderly.

The NHS is priceless.
 
Alvez_48 said:
Right... This is the worst thing about it all, we're going to self isolate people most of whom will not have it.
Those people are then (it's human nature) think they are invincible and that they have had it .. then they might actually get it and have to isolate again or even worse not have it again and self isolate again.

It makes no sense without mass testing the strategy is completely useless.
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if possible we should test everybody who show signs of corona. But we are in cold and flu season which have similar symptoms so how many would that be? 200k? 500k? 1m?
South Korea have been praised for how they have test people about 10k a day.
If the number is 500k it would take over 7 weeks to test them.
 
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