[rdsmommy]

Originally Posted by SonshineMama

Also if you want to discuss infection protocol when you have to be caretaker let me know. We have 1 positive, 2 pending, 2 asymptomatic— dd1 is quarantined alone but now Dd2 is sick and a minor and we r taking care of her. I’m using hospital infection protocol minus the googles n95 and contact gown.

Aka bleach and rubbing alcohol, how to handle garbage and bodily fluid trash etc. we even have a protocol for using our toilet and glove removal. I don’t think I realized how much us rubbed off on me from working on a Covid floor

“For the record” we r doing vitamin C, D, zinc . And if taking melatonin or other supplements before this we r continuing.

Honestly for better or worse we haven't been doing any extra cleaning/precautions since we all got sick. I just don't have the energy. We are all sick so I figured it couldn't spread any further in our home and we are quarantined at home together. When everyone is over it I intend to try and do a thorough cleaning, but we are all coughing/ sneezing everywhere right now and I just don't see the point. Dh and I seem to have gotten it first (symptoms started a couple days before dc). Presumably from his boss at work, but we thought it was allergies because we didn't have any of the tell tale symptoms. By the time we realized it was Covid dd and ds were already having similar symptoms. I now realize how this spreads so easily. If his boss hadn't said he tested positive dh would have continued to work for at least a couple more days thinking it was allergies. He didn't get a fever till yesterday ( 4 days after he started sneezing/coughing). Thankfully since his boss let us know on Tuesday we were able to prevent ds from spreading it to our homeschool friends by staying home from class this week.

Thank you all for the advice. I wasn't sure whether my aunt knew what she was talking about because she is one who has posted mountains of conspiracy theory type stuff on Facebook and I wasn't sure if she had really done her research. I went ahead and had dh and I take the quercetin 400mg, zinc 50mg, and vitamin d 5000iu my mom sent over. I'm just going to have the kids continue to take the emergen c. I might have them take it twice a day instead of once but their symptoms seem to be a little milder. Dh and I will also continue to take the emrgen c for vitamin c.

Thankfully for now it just feels like a really nasty cold/flu.

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Originally Posted by ECingMama

It really stinks to have to make decisions when you're sick. I'm so sorry you're in this place. Prayers for a quick recovery and for wisdom on what is right for *your* family.

Thank you. I had heard of vitamin c, d, and zinc being good for getting rid of viruses. That's why I've had everyone taking emergency c, but I had no idea what quercetin was and I also hadn't heard of taking such high doses of vitamins. I started trying to research but there's just too much info out there and then I remembered a post here from the spring mentioning things like that in regards to covid and thought I'd ask here.