My girlfriend tested positive. Logistics?

Thurrafork

Thanks Brie for the remedy suggestions!

As for the mask thing: She's not keen on them but she can wear them. She wears them on the tube and to the supermarket without complaint. That's one of the reasons I was baffled!

Brie

still think it's disgusting if ones coughing and sneezing into it.  That's different to simply having to breathe through fabric/paper.  

fyi - sage tea is available in tea bags from herbal/organic/natural remedy places.  but you can easily make it with just your standard sage that you may have in the kitchen.  1 heaped teaspoon full into a tea bell (if you have one) or just directly into a mug/teacup and add hot water.  nicer if you can strain it of course.  it's quite pleasant drunk as a tea but also can be used cooled down to gargle with.

Hope she feels better soon and forgives you!!!  

Thurrafork

Thanks Brie
I might suggest the sage tea if communication channels open up again.
But I must say, my cupboards are already full of the strange and mysterious Chinese medicinal herbs and teas she brought over from Taiwan. She usually has a strong sense of what she needs to feel healthier.

Pollycat

Brie said:

Quite frankly as someone who cannot wear a mask to be told by someone to wear one is not very helpful.  Add to that the ick factor of coughing sneezing into the mask or even a visor!  Super yuck!!!

But it sounds like you're trying to be nice, helpful considerate but you know what it's like when you feel dreadful - everything is likely to cause upset, including being offered some nice soothing tea.  

fyi - I came down with the lurgy about a month back and am still recovering.  Had a test which was negative so I guess it's just a summer cold.  Best things for it are sage tea (supposedly antiseptic but def soothing for a scratchy throat) and if I still can't stop coughing I munch on Airwaves gum.   I think the cherry is best but hard to find these days but any of them are nicely mentholated so help with congestion and that bluergk that sets off the coughing.  These have both been my go tos for colds for a number of years now.  Particularly helpful if, like me, you can't take the chemical remedies available from the chemist.

But I don't think the OP's girlfriend cannot wear a mask.
She's just 'not so keen on masks'.

I find those menthol sweets - Jakeman's - are pretty good at calming down a cough. They do lots of different flavours. Usually available in £1 shops and Savers.

michael1234

If that was my wife I would be very annoyed. I would expect that she would want to keep away and if she had to enter common areas she'd be happy to wear a mask.

I don't say that with any expectation that I am "right". Its just my view.

strawb_shortcake

When my Husband had covid, due to not having a spare room we continued to share a bed and he stayed in rooms with me and the children. 
Despite the close contact he never passed it on to any of us. 
Wearing a mask to cough is quite honestly disgusting, you'd have to bin it after every coughing fit, using a tissue and washing your hands after would be easier and preferable. 

As a grown up feeling unwell I imagine it is pretty annoying having another adult to tell you how to behave, especially if said adult isn't fully cognisant of just what you were doing or planning to do after finishing coughing.

strawb_shortcake

When my Husband had covid, due to not having a spare room we continued to share a bed and he stayed in rooms with me and the children. 
Despite the close contact he never passed it on to any of us. 
Wearing a mask to cough is quite honestly disgusting, you'd have to bin it after every coughing fit, using a tissue and washing your hands after would be easier and preferable. 

As a grown up feeling unwell I imagine it is pretty annoying having another adult to tell you how to behave, especially if said adult isn't fully cognisant of just what you were doing or planning to do after finishing coughing.

poppy12345

My daughter lives with her partner and their 17 month old son. She had Covid about a month ago and she didn't stay away from either of them. She continued to sleep in the same bed as her partner and their son comes into their bed every morning. She didn't pass it onto either of them. My son in law is,fully vaccinated but of course my grandson isn't.

sheramber

The advice is to cough or sneeze into your elbow as that is least likely to come into contact with anybody else.

if you are about teh hospital visit you could de a test in the morning.

silvercar

To be honest, she has probably spread enough covid droplets around the place over the last few days, that if you are going to get it you will. Being super careful now is a genrerous act, but possibly unnecessary.

As for your hospital appointment, I would say you need to ask their policy. Even though the rules on isolation change on 16 August, a hospital setting may have a stricter policy.