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Flu jab.
Hi, a couple of months ago I had a flu jab and the person doing the jab was in a supermarket not a surgery.
He wasn't wearing gloves and I he pressed the injection site after the jab.
If he was hiv pos and had blood from a cut or sore on his hand who enters my wound could I be infected with hiv or hep?
He wasn't wearing gloves and I he pressed the injection site after the jab.
If he was hiv pos and had blood from a cut or sore on his hand who enters my wound could I be infected with hiv or hep?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Noted; no change in my opinion or advice.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome back to the forum.
However, I'm a bit concerned that you continue to worry unnecessarily about HIV from low risk or no risk exposures. Nobody has ever been known to acquire HIV in the sort of situation you describe. The only possibility of getting HIV from an injection is when the needle was previously used on someone else -- but modern influenza injections are always single use. Gloves are recommended for health care providers giving injections, but not necessarily required. The purpose of gloves in this setting is not to protect the patient from something the provider may have, just the opposite: to protect the provider from infections the patient might be carrying.
So no risk at all, no worries, no need for testing, and if you have a regular sex partner, you can safely carry on with your normal sexual practices.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
However, I'm a bit concerned that you continue to worry unnecessarily about HIV from low risk or no risk exposures. Nobody has ever been known to acquire HIV in the sort of situation you describe. The only possibility of getting HIV from an injection is when the needle was previously used on someone else -- but modern influenza injections are always single use. Gloves are recommended for health care providers giving injections, but not necessarily required. The purpose of gloves in this setting is not to protect the patient from something the provider may have, just the opposite: to protect the provider from infections the patient might be carrying.
So no risk at all, no worries, no need for testing, and if you have a regular sex partner, you can safely carry on with your normal sexual practices.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
Just to confirm - it was a chemist assistant at a pharmacy in the supermarket and I think he pressed down on the jab wound which was very small.
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