Covid antibody rapid test.

[papa al]

Available at pharmacy, B280.

If someone test (+),

but no symptoms,

then what?

[chilli42]

Nothing.  No symptoms, no C19.  Just rinse and repeat until you have symptoms.

[KhunBENQ]

6 hours ago, papa al said:

If someone test (+),

but no symptoms,

then what?

Common sense and by the rules(?) you should self isolate/quarantine. Keep extra distance. Avoid contacts/visits.

Don't go to any hospital without symptoms as they might lock you up in some "hospitel".

7 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

Just rinse and repeat until you have symptoms.

Repeat after few days until test comes negative?

[KhunBENQ]

8 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

No symptoms, no C19.

Sure? There are people (particularly young and healthy) who simple don't notice.

But indeed symptoms might come a few days after first infection.

This is for the medical experts... I don't know exact numbers.

[HarrySeaman]

You will test positive for some time after a Covid-19 infection.

 

The most likely scenario is that you either had Covid-19 and it was so mild that you didn't notice it or that you now have a mild case of Covid-19.

 

The best answer for the safety of others is to self-isolate for 14 days after testing positive before rejoining society.

 

 

[Centrum]

24 minutes ago, rotorbreeze said:

Electron microscopy (EM) has long been used in the discovery and description of viruses. Organisms smaller than bacteria have been known to exist since the late 19th century (11), but the first EM visualization of a virus came only after the electron microscope was developed. Ernst Ruska, with his mentor Max Knoll, built the first electron microscope in 1931 as the project for his Ph.D. thesis. Eight years later, Ruska and colleagues Kausche and Pfankuch were the first to visualize viruses (tobacco mosaic virus) with the EM (47), and in 1986, Ruska shared the Nobel Prize with Binnig and Rohr, developers of the scanning tunneling electron microscope.

You see...that the  Covid test patch is just that no indication of anything proven...like 911 an Aluminum construction of plane flying through a steel and concrete building shown on media, by the way if you can smell smoke with mask on, sad to say the virus is like a football going through uprights on the pitch. Virus will pass through a 1" clay cylinder but bacteria will not..I know this as I lived in West Africa... have a excellent immunity and follow building this rather than a vaccination, natural immunity is best with 98% recovery...

I'll have what he's smoking.

 

[sapson]

Question for the medical experts re covid antigen test, have completed two in the last 8 weeks both negative thankfully.

 

However due to risk exposure wish to check regularly.

 

When swabbing the nose you are looking to absorb the fluid in the nasal area etc.

 

So when sneezing, once every few days a great lump of jelly like mucus flies out of the nostril probably due to an allergy etc due to dust and no aircon.

 

Could you immediately shove the test swab into this jelly mucus thats just exited the nose as it represents the contents fluid deep in the nasal cavity ,instead of shoving the swab in each nostril to do the test?

 

 

 

 

[MrJ2U]

If no one is looking I guess go home and quarantine as much as you can.

 

Maybe get a blood test.

 

I'd be worried they'll put you in a hospital.  

 

A week later have a bill that'll give you a heart attack.

[ArcticFox]

Getting a test for Covid when you have no symptoms is about as logical as getting a test for Dengue when you have no symptoms.

I know, the argument is that if your asymptomatic you could spread the virus.  The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'
???? No.

Imho, the answer is that people have become completely neurotic. Most farangs are irrational germophobes as it is.  Take a deep breath, and pull ya'll selves back to sanity.  Buy a couple of Covid 'antigen' tests from the pharmacy (they are not "antibody tests" which are something different and pharmacies don't sell those).  If you feel really drained or fatigued or start to display cold-like symptoms - well then by all means - test yourself.  If I or my wife ever pop positive we'll self-quarantine and follow the Zelenko protocol.  What anyone else pops positive what they do is up to them. 
Quarantine, turn yourselves in to "authorities", go to a hospital which will then turn you into authorities.  Personally I want to stay as far away from concentrated groups of Covid patients housed in the 'field hospitals' which then exposes you to high levels of virus as well as the potential to contract other variants.  And the concept of forced incarceration rubs me the wrong way. 
Hopefully anyone who pops positive at least quarantines as that is socially responsible and if you are asymptomatic or only mildly ill you can stay safer in self-quarantine than risk the danger inherent in being incarcerated in a field facility.

[elcaro]

8 minutes ago, ArcticFox said:

I know, the argument is that if your asymptomatic you could spread the virus.  The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'
???? No.

Is dengue transmissable?

[KannikaP]

2 minutes ago, elcaro said:

Is dengue transmissable?

Not person to person. Only person to mozzie to person.

[ArcticFox]

13 minutes ago, elcaro said:

Is dengue transmissable?

Yep, via the Aedes albopictus mosquito.  I've been there, had that.  That's why we stay very well informed regarding Dengue cases in the villages. I don't want it again.

[DefaultName]

If you're vaccinated, would that automatically give a positive test?

[papa al]

1 hour ago, ArcticFox said:

they are not "antibody tests" 

Thanks for the correction in the nomenclature.

//////////

2. What is someone feels some mild symptoms,

self-treats and isolates,

soon feels better,

then,  5 weeks later

tests and (+).?

.

 

[GroveHillWanderer]

1 hour ago, ArcticFox said:

I know, the argument is that if your asymptomatic you could spread the virus.  The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'

That's a false equivalence. Dengue does not spread from person to person. It requires an intermediate mosquito vector.

[GroveHillWanderer]

1 hour ago, DefaultName said:

If you're vaccinated, would that automatically give a positive test?

No - if you're vaccinated you will not have any antigens from the virus, you will have antibodies produced in response to the vaccine.

 

As stated in an earlier post  these are antigen tests not antibody tests.

[papa al]

... papa would take Cov19 over dengue any day.

Covid is easily treatable.

[Petey11]

Positive, live on income from day to day, no financial back up or social help? No one looking, bin it.

 

Although totally devoid of social responsibility, guarantee it does happen.

[DefaultName]

15 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

No - if you're vaccinated you will not have any antigens from the virus, you will have antibodies produced in response to the vaccine.

 

As stated in an earlier post  these are antigen tests not antibody tests.

Thanks.

[sapson]

Having been vaccinated 2 weeks ago Astra first shot, will that have any bearing on an antigen test done now?, other than that it will be protecting me from the possible very serious effects of Covid if positive.

[Skallywag]

OP is talking about the antigen test, not an antibody test.

BTW, the M.T. Blood lab on 3rd road in Pattaya does an Covid antibody test for 999 baht 2 weeks after your second shot.  Great blood lab for many things BTW.

Stay safe and healthy

Peace

[Skallywag]

17 hours ago, papa al said:

... papa would take Cov19 over dengue any day.

Covid is easily treatable.

Really!? Covid has killed around 50X more people than Dengue in Thailand this year  BTW

[ArcticFox]

21 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

That's a false equivalence. Dengue does not spread from person to person. It requires an intermediate mosquito vector.

Regardless of the transmission vector - the argument applies.  

[Sheryl]

7 hours ago, sapson said:

Having been vaccinated 2 weeks ago Astra first shot, will that have any bearing on an antigen test done now?, other than that it will be protecting me from the possible very serious effects of Covid if positive.

Vaccines have no effect on results of an antigen test.

[GroveHillWanderer]

18 hours ago, ArcticFox said:

Regardless of the transmission vector - the argument applies.  

Not true - covid doesn't require a vector, it goes directly from person to person. If you have Covid you know you can give it directly to another person. If you have Dengue, you don't know if you'll be bitten by a mosquito while you have it and even if you were, you don't know whether that mosquito is going to bite someone else.

 

It's a totally different scenario and you really can't compare the modes of transmission and precautions needed to avoid passing it on.

[Sheryl]

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[it is what it is]

On 9/2/2021 at 12:32 PM, ArcticFox said:

Getting a test for Covid when you have no symptoms is about as logical as getting a test for Dengue when you have no symptoms.

I know, the argument is that if your asymptomatic you could spread the virus.  The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'
???? No.

Imho, the answer is that people have become completely neurotic. Most farangs are irrational germophobes as it is.  Take a deep breath, and pull ya'll selves back to sanity.  Buy a couple of Covid 'antigen' tests from the pharmacy (they are not "antibody tests" which are something different and pharmacies don't sell those).  If you feel really drained or fatigued or start to display cold-like symptoms - well then by all means - test yourself.  If I or my wife ever pop positive we'll self-quarantine and follow the Zelenko protocol.  What anyone else pops positive what they do is up to them. 
Quarantine, turn yourselves in to "authorities", go to a hospital which will then turn you into authorities.  Personally I want to stay as far away from concentrated groups of Covid patients housed in the 'field hospitals' which then exposes you to high levels of virus as well as the potential to contract other variants.  And the concept of forced incarceration rubs me the wrong way. 
Hopefully anyone who pops positive at least quarantines as that is socially responsible and if you are asymptomatic or only mildly ill you can stay safer in self-quarantine than risk the danger inherent in being incarcerated in a field facility.

The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'

 

really? since when was dengue fever transmittable human to human? do you know what dengue fever is?!

[rott]

On 9/4/2021 at 10:53 PM, it is what it is said:

The same applies to Dengue.  So should we all get periodic Dengue tests 'just to be safe?'

 

really? since when was dengue fever transmittable human to human? do you know what dengue fever is?!

Actually no, but I did have malaria twenty odd years ago. 

Do you feel like explaining dengue.?

Not a snarky post, I know of it but not about it. I could always just google it I suppose. 

[Sheryl]

We are drifting far off toopic and the OP's question has been answered already so thread closed.