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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recommendations on where to get a quick test for infants/young toddlers? Our pediatrician does not do testing, so we’ve had our one year old tested in the ER (6 hour visit, but she was actually sick with a cough) and urgent care (90 minutes for a runny nose). [b]The testing site near us won’t test toddlers. I call my pediatrician for advice on whether or not to go to urgent care for a test, but would go more regularly for runny noses if it was as easy as going to the pediatrician instead of an ordeal with urgent care waiting rooms[/b]. [/quote] This. Some people don't seem to realize that testing for very young children isn't widespread. We've taken our infant and preschooler (they're in daycare) to PM Pediatrics several times for tests due to runny noses, but there's a 3 to 5 day wait for results. We can make do, but that isn't exactly practical for a lot of families, especially when it happens repeatedly and seems far more likely to be allergies. Our pediatrician doesn't consider a runny nose by itself a reason to be tested. Our daycare doesn't, either. We've been erring on the side of caution, but our older DD clearly has allergies (runny nose responds to Zyrtec) so, no, I'm not getting her tested every time that pops up now.[/quote] You need to find a new pediatrician. Every pediatric practice in my area does rapid tests - we're in northern virginia. I took my child in yesterday for a strep test (sore throat) and they did a Covid test just in case. Both were neg, so it's just a cold, but we were in the office for 15 minutes. We had the strep results in 6 minutes and the Covid results in 15. [/quote] Rapid test? No thanks. My daycare doesn't accept a negative on a rapid test, just PCR. Rapids are notoriously unreliable.[/quote] +1. Same here. And no, I'm not going to change a longer-term pediatrician just because they don't do in-office Covid testing. They have valid reasons for choosing not to do so, even if it's inconvenient for us. And the PP has no way of knowing if "every" pediatric practice in their area administers rapid tests.[/quote] Yep. We are in NoVA, too, and our pediatrician started doing rapid tests in January...but that does me no good, since daycare would require PCR. On top of that, I personally know more than a few people who were negative on rapid and positive on PCR. Those rapid results can’t be trusted.[/quote]
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