‘Low and slow’: How do I make my kid’s RAT comfortable?

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‘Low and slow’: How do I make my kid’s RAT comfortable? | SamanthaSMorris

With school returning next week, parents in New South Wales and Victoria are staring down the barrel of givingSo, the question on every parent or caregiver’s mind is: how can you give a child a RAT – via a nasal swab – so that they’re comfortable and your mornings don’t descend into a swirl of squirming, crying and dirty looks?

Firstly, he says, parents or caregivers need to insert the RAT swab into their child’s nose at a horizontal angle. “So your natural tendency, [like] when people pick their noses, is to point the swab vertically to the sky and often the pictures depict that, but actually what’s best is for the swab to go horizontal,” he says. “If you look at the swab and it’s parallel to the ground, you’re doing it right.

What you’re aiming for is the pink skin one to two centimetres inside the nostril, past the dry skin right inside our nostril that has hair on it. “We want the wet part of the nose,” says Levi. “It doesn’t have to be painful or scary,” says Levi. “A gentle, slow and low direction will reduce the pain and help your kids to have it [the swab] again and again and again.”

 

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SamanthaSMorris We are hiding behind the false sense of security that RATS provide. Governments Australia wide have outsourced the management of this pandemic to the public and left them paying 100s of dollars for multiple RAT kits to do their surveillance testing for them.

SamanthaSMorris Tell your kids to fucking grow up

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