Thoughts IF DCL Covid tests Children

[soniam]

My DS2 had to be covid tested. He was screaming bloody murder from the moment entering the hospital till ... covid testing. The qtip went into his nose, just barely, I could still see some of the "cotton". He stops crying and I asked the DR, she said that's how pediatric covid testing is performed.

I read a thing about covid testing, there's no study that shows sticking 3" up the nose is any more accurate than just swabing the tip of the nose, but since that was how the test was validated, nobody is changing the way it's done unless there's some kind of cost/accuracy benefit.

Is it really 3" I don't have a big head or a big nose. I wonder if they could do 3" without damages some of my narrow nasal cavity.

 

[MomOTwins]

Is it really 3" I don't have a big head or a big nose. I wonder if they could do 3" without damages some of my narrow nasal cavity.

It’s actuall a 6” swab. It goes wayyyyy up in there.

 

[soniam]

It’s actuall a 6” swab. It goes wayyyyy up in there.

I think the OP was saying that it goes in 3", so yeah, the swab would have to be pretty long. I can see a lot of damage occurring for me with that. I have narrow and sensitive nasal passages. Do they just cram it up there quickly and hope they don't do damage? Hoping for saliva if I really need one. Plus, I use a neti pot twice a day. I wonder if that rinses out a lot of the antibodies.

 

[MomOTwins]

I think the OP was saying that it goes in 3", so yeah, the swab would have to be pretty long. I can see a lot of damage occurring for me with that. I have narrow and sensitive nasal passages. Do they just cram it up there quickly and hope they don't do damage? Hoping for saliva if I really need one. Plus, I use a neti pot twice a day. I wonder if that rinses out a lot of the antibodies.

It kind of Just gets pushed back through your nose and down the back of your throat, but that is the test for tge virus itself. The antibody test is a blood test.

i kind of doubt a neti pot would matter since it is more flushing out sinuses Than the upper throat area they are testing and the virus would just come right back in any case as you breathe.

 

[soniam]

It kind of Just gets pushed back through your nose and down the back of your throat, but that is the test for tge virus itself. The antibody test is a blood test.

i kind of doubt a neti pot would matter since it is more flushing out sinuses Than the upper throat area they are testing and the virus would just come right back in any case as you breathe.

All the way back to the throat

 

[Kate_45]

My little boy has had 2 covid tests. Before the first one I asked how he felt "a little scared," he said in the smallest voice (he was poorly at the time). He was fine though. Rubbing the tonsils and then up the nose - just till resistance, no longer up and over. The second one a bit later when he was no longer ill was even better.

To put things in perspective he a few weeks later had a meltdown over me cutting his hair so he is not some sort of angel.
Kids can do it, no problem, no lasting damage.

Now would I take my family on a cruise where we have to be tested? I don't know. It's not something I can really picture, as right now I wouldn't get on a boat for a holiday (or a plane). If I were in the mind that I was ready to go on a cruise I certainly wouldn't let a quick test at the start (I've experienced the test too) put me off. I would just be certain before I go that if it was positive I wouldn't end up out of pocket.

 

[closetmickey]

I’m thinking that time on the Mickey Boat will erase and “traumatization” that occurs at boarding.