Anyone rapid test an infant/toddler?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused- are people not covid testing their kids?

My kids are 4 and 18m and have taken tons of rapid tests throughout the pandemic.

18mo is too young for rapid tests, at least according to the packaging. I test my 2.5yo (and myself) a lot but not my 9mo. It's almost always the 2.5yo sick first so if she's e.g. Covid negative/RSV positive I don't feel like I need to go out of my way to get the baby tested but in OP's case (known exposure) I would take him to his ped to get a PCR done.

[Anonymous]

I have not tried this (because by the time the baby is sick, we are all already sick, and the grown ups can all test for covid properly), but I have wondered whether I could use the blue bulb (or nose frieda, or whatever) to suck out a wad of snot, and then rub the swab in that for a good long time, and then test off that. Someone should try it and report back!

[Anonymous]

I tested my positive then nine month old at home with a rapid test. It’s fine. She also had to be tested at her pediatrician when she had other colds earlier in her infancy. You don’t need to insert the swab too far.

Also if she has a runny nose and you’re positive she presumably has covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused- are people not covid testing their kids?

My kids are 4 and 18m and have taken tons of rapid tests throughout the pandemic.

Mine too, but I don’t use at home rapids on a child under 2. Bc the box says not to, and if you believe in science then you believe in science.

OP, go to a PM pediatrics.

[Anonymous]

I use the rapid tests all the time. I think the box says not to because they don’t want any safety issues for swabbing the nose. Use a PCR if she’s asymptomatic but is a close contact and you need to clear her to go anywhere. But I think they’re fine to confirm a positive if you’re all sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused- are people not covid testing their kids?

My kids are 4 and 18m and have taken tons of rapid tests throughout the pandemic.

Mine too, but I don’t use at home rapids on a child under 2. Bc the box says not to, and if you believe in science then you believe in science.

OP, go to a PM pediatrics.

PM Pediatrics is going to use the same test.

[Anonymous]

They don’t have a super secret baby Covid test at PM Pediatrics that you can’t buy to use at home. It’s the same thing. It’s just administered by someone trained not to poke them in the brain or whatever. But frankly, they just let me take her home from the hospital without any training so this seems more about lawsuits than common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t have a super secret baby Covid test at PM Pediatrics that you can’t buy to use at home. It’s the same thing. It’s just administered by someone trained not to poke them in the brain or whatever. But frankly, they just let me take her home from the hospital without any training so this seems more about lawsuits than common sense.

They have a PCR there. For those that might want that.

[Anonymous]

People are still covid testing young toddlers?

As our pediatrician noted, the standard of care for Covid is no different from any other illness now, so there's really no need to test.

Presumably the grandparents are vaxxed and boosted.

[Anonymous]

Rapids are not reliable. Did a rapid on my child and received a negative on the same day that pediatrician performed a pcr which turned out to be positive. He said do not use a rapid to get an accurate answer.

[Anonymous]

Either you stay home or your husband stays home. Keep the child away from grandparents. In all likelihood, the baby is positive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rapids are not reliable. Did a rapid on my child and received a negative on the same day that pediatrician performed a pcr which turned out to be positive. He said do not use a rapid to get an accurate answer.

Was your child symptomatic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rapids are not reliable. Did a rapid on my child and received a negative on the same day that pediatrician performed a pcr which turned out to be positive. He said do not use a rapid to get an accurate answer.

Was your child symptomatic?

Fully symptomatic. Had sore throat and coughing two prior two days, starting having stomach ache, body aches, high fever. This is why I brought her in to see the pediatrician. Though it might be strep since rapid didn’t pick up covid. She had full on flu-like everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rapids are not reliable. Did a rapid on my child and received a negative on the same day that pediatrician performed a pcr which turned out to be positive. He said do not use a rapid to get an accurate answer.

+1 got negatives when I was positive.

[Anonymous]

I’ve done rapids on both my kids under 2. Our pediatrician said it was fine to use rapids, and this was when my youngest was 4 months.