BinaxNow at home test and false positives?

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Anonymous wrote:Here it is - it sounds like it's more like 2%

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/04/1024450/at-home-covid-test-review-accuracy-binaxnow-lucira-ellume/

Thank you! Here is to hoping we are in the 2%

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If he has COVID and his only symptom was a brief mild headache, wow! Good for him.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

If you decide not to isolate, then I would test his brother daily to try to catch his covid case as early as possible. The earlier you get it, the shorter your quarantine is! My daughters all got it from each other, but it took several days to spread and only one of them even showed symptoms. If your other child never gets it but has constant exposure, he can’t even begin his official quarantine until your other son is done. If your or your husband get it, then it starts over again. It is really best to try to isolate if you can figure it out.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

If you decide not to isolate, then I would test his brother daily to try to catch his covid case as early as possible. The earlier you get it, the shorter your quarantine is! My daughters all got it from each other, but it took several days to spread and only one of them even showed symptoms. If your other child never gets it but has constant exposure, he can’t even begin his official quarantine until your other son is done. If your or your husband get it, then it starts over again. It is really best to try to isolate if you can figure it out.

Okay, that makes sense. I will keep them apart then. What a bummer. The kids are sad.

[Anonymous]

We had a false positive on a rapid test from the pediatrician with an asymptomatic child. The only reason we were at the pediatrician was to get a PCR test to return to school after a holiday break.

Two PCR tests indicated negative. Pediatrician was talking about no longer doing rapid tests because PCRs were so quick now and rapids were unreliable. They had a rash of false positive rapid tests. I won’t take rapid tests anymore. There is a PCR place in Tysons where you can test at like 6:30pm and get the results back by like 5am.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

If you decide not to isolate, then I would test his brother daily to try to catch his covid case as early as possible. The earlier you get it, the shorter your quarantine is! My daughters all got it from each other, but it took several days to spread and only one of them even showed symptoms. If your other child never gets it but has constant exposure, he can’t even begin his official quarantine until your other son is done. If your or your husband get it, then it starts over again. It is really best to try to isolate if you can figure it out.

Okay, that makes sense. I will keep them apart then. What a bummer. The kids are sad.

NP here: windows open in your house, even if cold. You want that air to circulate to lower the viral loads and lessen the chance that the sibling gets infected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a false positive on a rapid test from the pediatrician with an asymptomatic child. The only reason we were at the pediatrician was to get a PCR test to return to school after a holiday break.

Two PCR tests indicated negative. Pediatrician was talking about no longer doing rapid tests because PCRs were so quick now and rapids were unreliable. They had a rash of false positive rapid tests. I won’t take rapid tests anymore. There is a PCR place in Tysons where you can test at like 6:30pm and get the results back by like 5am.

Thanks. We went to curative and normally get results back overnight. We shall see

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS1 had a mild headache this morning (disappeared in under 10 minutes without meds, but tested him in an abundance of caution). The rapid at home test was positive. Took him for a PCR but won't get those results back until tonight.

Anyone have any experience with at home rapids and false positives? Would love to hear they are very common and we can actually see the family that we haven't seen in 2 years next week.

Did you not know that 2 million home tests were recalled for false positives??

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Why in the world would you test for a minor headache that quickly resolved itself?

My DD told me her throat was sore this morning. I gave her a glass of OJ and asked if it went away. She said yes. We get this often when running the heat over night. I certainly didn’t Covid test her?!??

Some of you are really making this extra difficult on yourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a false positive on a rapid test from the pediatrician with an asymptomatic child. The only reason we were at the pediatrician was to get a PCR test to return to school after a holiday break.

Two PCR tests indicated negative. Pediatrician was talking about no longer doing rapid tests because PCRs were so quick now and rapids were unreliable. They had a rash of false positive rapid tests. I won’t take rapid tests anymore. There is a PCR place in Tysons where you can test at like 6:30pm and get the results back by like 5am.

Rapid tests play an important role - they are very good at predicting if a person showing symptoms is contagious. There are false positives most often for asymptomatic, but for symptomatic people who do rapid tests for things like Thanksgiving dinner, it is a great tool.

[Anonymous]

False positives happen. Don't test your kid in the future for such mild symptoms!

[Anonymous]

Per CDC a false positive is definitely possible.

“Despite the high specificity of antigen tests, false positive results will occur, especially when used in communities where the prevalence of infection is low – a circumstance that is true for all in vitro diagnostic tests.”

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Anonymous wrote:False positives happen. Don't test your kid in the future for such mild symptoms!

Irresponsible advice! This is how it spreads. My kids had very minor symptoms, one was just a headache. If I hadn’t tested them, they could have spread it at school, sports, to grandparents etc. In most kids covid is very mild or asymptomatic, this is why you need to test if anything is off with how they feel.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

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Anonymous wrote:It is not my understand that False positives are common - sorry. It's the false negatives that more common.

I hope your kiddo feels better.

Thank you. He actually seems to feel fine luckily. Although I think that makes him even more sad about missing school. He just got vaccinated last week too! We made it so close.

It is so hard to miss all that school when your kid feels fine. Do you have other kids? If so, make sure you isolate your sick kid from them asap. Otherwise their quarantine won’t end until 10 days after your sick kids quarantine ends (assuming they don’t test positive). It took almost a month for our family to all get out of quarantine when covid slowly spread through our house earlier this fall. Also, we used the binax now tests. It was right for 3 out of 4 cases. Only one negative on an asymptotic person.

He does have a brother, but I thought about this but wasn't sure if it was going to be possible. I mean that would mean DS1 would stay in his room the entire quarantine? Or they are just never in the same room. It feels impossible at the moment with our small house and I feel like he was already exposed before we even got the positive test.

Yes, he was already exposed. The point is to not have him continuously exposed for the next 10 days. If you don’t isolate, sibling’s quarantine period STARTS on positive kid’s day 10!!

^^^and this is a big reason why I would never test for mild symptoms. Thank goodness my older child is vaccinated and my youngest has just a few more weeks until she is.