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Lateral flow tests

(185 Posts)
Gymstagran Wed 26-May-21 08:59:23

Its good to see all the people who are doing the testing, I'm just hopeful that more will too.

Margiknot Tue 25-May-21 21:21:46

Yes I do them for work twice a week for work as does our young adult son ( for college). I collected some tests from our pharmacy ( our son forgot to get more test strips from college) but can’t persuade my husband to start testing, but he might if he goes out more. LFT are not very sensitive- but more specific than checking temperature. I do wonder how good they are at picking up presymptomatic cases.

Puzzler61 Tue 25-May-21 20:53:18

DH has been doing them twice weekly and is on the Imperial College research programme, but I obtained some Lateral Flow Test kits just this week to start doing them twice a week too.

JaneJudge Tue 25-May-21 20:48:02

we are all doing them

Galaxy Tue 25-May-21 20:47:21

Yes twice a week for work. All negative. I have had colds/cough whilst testing.

Baggs Tue 25-May-21 20:45:35

I have them at work twice a week. All negative. In fact the list was getting so long on the Zöe App that I've let them know I'll enter a positive result should there ever be one but not the negatives.

I have a bit of a dry cough and have had it for a while. It might be because of all the tree pollen that's around at the moment.

YorkLady Tue 25-May-21 18:45:17

Yes. Every week. All negative and recorded online.

tanith Tue 25-May-21 16:48:49

Yes I’ve been doing them for a couple of weeks all negative registered online. I’ve had both jabs.

Whiff Tue 25-May-21 16:46:19

I did my first one on Saturday it was negative which I knew it would be . But as the Indian variant is up here thought it was the responsible thing to do. I have had both doses of AZ. And have done 4 ones you send away since September.

My daughter and family all got Covid in February I had been with them a lot but when I was tested it was negative. How I didn't catch it I don't know. Had my first vaccine in March.

Because I am going out more often that's another reason to do the lateral flow tests. But am going to only do them every Saturday.

You have to register a negative result as well as positive ones. Couldn't do it on line so phoned the result in.

Gymstagran Tue 25-May-21 16:36:12

Is anybody doing the twice a week lateral flow tests? On different threads there have been comments indicating that people have had coughs and colds but noone mentions self testing. On a different social media platform a GP stated that he had three consecutive patients complaining of coughs and none of them had taken a test. Is this why the new variant is spreading rapidly? How can people be persuaded to self test?