Hickeys Pharmacy 7.95
Circle K i think are about the same price too
As DeGascun observed early into this last year, many other things have some similar symptoms and people had many other things. What's going on now is more than overcautious especially with 45% of the testing in kids. It needs to be reviewed as soon as possible.
\yes I agree with you .But at least the poster could do an antigen test on a child with a runny nose in my opinion .It doesnt cost that much and is easy for peace of mind .The poster in question said he/she would not do an antigen test on the child .
I ordered 25 from medguard for 89 euros last week, arrived the next day, I gave some to family, I used one last week, I had used ones from the local chemist I got for 7.50 earlier in the week, slightly different procedure but both easy to use. A bit of a flu going through the house last week.
What are schools doing re lunch? I happily eat outdoors even light rain is fine but lashing rain..... with no cover.
Thanks for this. That is the cheapest I have heard of.
I have picked them up in Applegreen for 6.95, but only buying one or two at a time.
We have used them, but the 3 year old was very non-cooperative, so had to go get a HSE test for him.He didn't like that either so if I can avoid doing it to him again I will, as it will be a serious battle I reckon.
I am getting a price of 25 for €175 on Medguard ?
I use the saliva tests from mybio.ie, 5for €35… less invasive than nose swab …
https://www.medguard.ie/sars-cov-2-antigen-rapid-test-kit.html select 25 option 89 euros
bit of flu 😀
sounds like a headcold, you don't get a bit of flu. if you have flu you're in bed for a week, you'd know all about it.
Yeah I used the term broadly, a bit of flu symptoms, starting with one of the kids till three have had it,me also.
Irish people can get a bit of whatever disease they want!
Son was up vomiting and with diarrhea during the night, temp now, so kids are off today.
I've never seen anything like the cold/bug doing the rounds this term. Daughter was as poorly last week, covid precautions aside they just couldn't have gone to school anyway, most of their classmates parents saying the same thing.
Still none of these promised co2 monitors in schools.
A waste of money and a promise.
No surprises there really. Same setup in my place (third level), but I went and bought my own one as distancing is not being enforced in labs and classes. From the devices I have looked at, they need to be calibrated before use. There is a 10 step calibration procedure for my one where it needs to be left outside for 15 minutes. Somebody on this thread mentioned having several devices in the same location with different readings on each - perhaps they were not calibrated properly before use?
There is a hypothesis that kids catching colds regularly keeps their immune systems ‘primed’ and ready to go to fight off the next infection. Most kids didn’t catch as many colds, bugs etc last year compared to previous years. A few parents I know have said their kids were sicker then usual when they caught bugs recently. It would be an interesting time to be in immunology research.
Covid19 outbreaks soar to 90 schools with 412 pupils and staff infected
Irish Independent
Parents being nicely primed to jab 5-12 year olds.
"There were 13 outbreaks in the workplace, with 37 confirmed linked cases last week. Four outbreaks occurred in nursing homes, with 49 linked cases.
Seven outbreaks occurred in residential institutions, four in acute hospitals and two in community hospitals."
So even in places with high vaccine uptake, there have been outbreaks also.
"Parents being nicely primed to jab 5-12 year olds."
Great, bring it on!
It's the Indo being typically melodramatic with the word "soar". The RTE coverage is appropriately boring.
There are around a million kids in school in Ireland. 412 cases is about 1 in 2,500 risk of becoming a case, per week. At this rate a kid at average risk would need to attend school for 34 years to have a 50% chance of becoming a case.
It's not a big deal.
Out of 1000000 kids , not bad at all
Yup my daughter will be 12 next April… if she can be vaccinated quicker both she and I will be thrilled. I’m spending a fortune on antigen test… all her class mates and herself have heavy headcolds at the minute. It’s headwreaking. They all pcr testing negative… sick of it
Tiny numbers for a country of 5 million people.
Every child i know has a cold at the minute . All negative on PCR and antigen tests
Yes, I’ve lost another 3 days work this week at least because of my 1 year olds benign head cold.
The current protocols are just not sustainable for working parents, many I’m in touch with are at breaking point and it’s only September.
We’re currently paying full rates at creche for two kids, close to 2 grand a month. My annual leave is almost gone now due to having to take time off since March. Taking unpaid leave while paying full creche rates is not an option so I’m praying that testing requirements change ASAP.
I feel for parents for being put in this position due to ridiculous testing procedures, but the inconvenience of it is literally one of the worst reasons to vaccinate that age group considering their risk profile.
If I was being cynical, I would think it's not by accident children are being sent wholesale to very busy PCR test centres at the moment. It's a great way to sucker...sorry coerce parents into vaccinating their kids. All on the context too of pushing to get people back into offices, so there's no one at home to keep an eye on them when they're off isolating with the sniffles.
Also, HSE guidelines state a child can go to school with a cold so long as no temp/cough/calpol needed.
It's an absolute pain in the ***. But we are being pushed into a "what choice do we have" corner at this point. I'm not anti-vax, not by a long shot. My kids all have their vaccinations, I have the covid one. But I am not that sure how I feel about injecting my young kids with this, and I know quite a few parents feel the same.My 3 year old will remain unvaccinated anyway by the sounds of it.
Thankfully given the vaccination rates most parents are being rational and vaccinating their eligible kids anyway
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