Its true, seems to be everywhere

Need to get on the Bear Grylls diet, steak and eggs every day keeps the doc away

I pretty much did not get sick at all from 2020-2022. With everything opening up and life getting back to normal, guess things like seasonal flus will pick up.

There’s a bug doing the rounds on the board. Level 5 sniffles. Jonny Yes stepped out of the board a year ago to get some cough bottle and hasn’t returned. Probably dead by now. RIP.

    RIP Jonatton.

    Gone but not forgotten.

    Forumming wiv da angles now!

    Until this year, I’d maybe had one cold in the last 5 years. Covid in January, brutal 3 week cold in september, cold again for about 5 days a couple of weeks ago. Everyone here is sick, it’s running through schools like the plague.

      16 people tested positive at work today….I’ll be swerving the office tomorrow. 🤞🏻

      Mad_Cyril seriously! Though I think retesting positive after using Paxloxid is somewhat common. I don’t feel sick, but I don’t trust myself to not get others sick, so home I stay.

          NasserAlazzawi

          So anyways, no - it’s a lot of people, but literally not everyone. As you allude to, there is a load of coughs, sore throats, everlasting runny noses/eyes around, not least with us for weeks this winter.

          I should save this for the tabloids but my daughter was obviously not well Wednesday, just whiny/moaning a bit more than usual and had a slight temperature.

          Next day, no temperature but obvious scarlet fever rash. Friday, same. Ring the GP surgery and register the details first thing. Turns out there aren’t any GPs at the surgery…after chasing twice. I get a call early evening from an 0161 number from some random doctor. Confirms a few things, eventually he asks for photos of the rash sent to his mobile. I tell him it’s not secure, NHS has a secure dropbox type thing. He says he has no other option. Too much of a coincedence if it was a random hacker/nonce (and he was on Whatsapp). Photos of rash sent. Doctor is back on my phone 20 minuntes saying it’s nothing serious and prescribes generic emollient cream and Piriton. His actual words ’it’s nothing serious’ and ‘gone by Monday’. I went and got the prescription.

          Saturday, same - no temperature but still obvious scarlet fever rash. Emollient/Piriton lol. What to do?

          Sunday, ring 111 or whatever for hours, no-one is picking up. Take the pained decision to go to a walk-in with a probably highly contagious kid.

          Walk-in is rammed with a lot of sort of rough and/or slightly down trodden folk who seem to be doing it as just a thing they do most weekends.

          Get triaged 1 hour later, get moved into a side room because of the rash and then left pretty much for 4 hours…

          Doctor sees my kid, checks the rash on her torso, tonsils are swollen etc (still no temperature) - yup it’s strep A - scarlet fever and throat.

          Why couldn’t the first nurse say that? Why did it take 4 hours in the meantime.

            Did she have a swab that confirmed it?
            Just asking coz about a month ago had exactly the same with my 6 year old. Both of us got sore throat and raging temp, went to emergency as boy came out in rash all over and temp of 39.
            Got diagnosed as scarlet fever/strep A/acute tonsillitis. Got given antibiotics. 3 days later swab result comes back as negative and it was viral. Both our swabs.
            In short strep a is being misdiagnosed and subsequently mistreated. But better the devil.

              Cankles-McJeggings

              Nope. No way at this point where they geared up to swabbing throats for lab analysis. Christ.

              No-one here with me has had a ‘raging’ temp or sore throat. The rash wasn’t all over. My daughter has a couple of blisters on her tongue and a rash on her torso. It is scarlet fever, no doubt about it. The last prescription is working.

                They did say my son’s was scarlet fever no doubt too. He was head to toe rash mimicking exactly scarlet fever along with the other symptoms .
                Tbh the thing that pissed me the most was they knew on day 3 it wasn’t bacterial but had given him ten days of antibiotics on day 1. So he would been talking broad spectrum antibiotics for 7 days for no reason and there was no follow up to let us know to discontinue them. I only found out because my Dr rang me about something else by chance on day 5 and found out for me when I asked.
                Better safe and sorry on day one of course but just think that was poor form giving a kid, or anyone for that matter, antibiotics when they are trying to stop handing them out like sweets and everything becoming strain resistant.