visit sex shop risk cut

[lizna2014]

I had a cut cooking my breakfast, my wound did not require stitches, but if I bleed during period 10 min. The wound was with a kitchen knife.
If I touch my skin slightly damaged back bleeding, even with the simple movement of hand washing. My wound was about 3 cm.
Visit a sex shop that day in the afternoon, between the rooms where people masturbate and have sex.
I am aware of my wounded finger. Do not do any kind of sex or masturbation. My fear begins to think that I inadvertently touched some fluid on chairs, walls.
Is that the virus does not survive contact with the air, but not if someone use that chair to masturbate and leave your fluids in any superticie.

Maybe it sounds a little paranoid, but sex shop is visited and most clients are gay.


My life is turning around this situation, everything tells me about hiv, news, tv series, until I got to see an episode of dr house where patient coughs blood and falls into an eye of a Doctor

I know that does not compare, but if I say maybe sprinkle some of those fluids to my wound, I understand it must be very deep and direct contact but really scared to death.

I must fulfill some kind of test? Hopefully they can tell me if I have some kind of risk to be minimal. Thank you very much God bless you.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

You can play "what if" or "yes but" games forever, but my answers are not going to change.  There are no circumstances that would possibly change my opinion or advice.  And you can disregard the biological reasons, such as how quicly HIV dies on drying.  The important fact is that nobody in the world has ever caught HIV from this sort of event and you're not going to be the first.

So stop overthinking it, accept the reasonsed, science-based reassurance you have had, and move on with your life.

That's all for this thread.

[lizna2014]

if he had touched a fluid, and my wound bled a little, have some kind of risk? or simply because the fluid is exposed to air and would have died hiv

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

None of this changes my opinions or advice.  No need for worry or for testing.

[lizna2014]

just one more question, and apology.
although my cut was bleeding and cool it at the time, would not need to take a test??
I commented that when I went to the sex shop into the bathroom and wash my hands returned to my wound bleed, my wound was on a finger .. thank you very much

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Welcome to the forum.

You can relax.  There is no HIV risk by contact with infected blood or body fluids in the environment, i.e. outside direct sexual contact or sharing injection equipment.  While in theory one can imagine a risk in the presence of a fresh, bleeding cut, it has never been known to happen.  Your cut was too old to be a risk even if directly exposed, and if it didn't have obvious contact with visible blood or wet body fluids, there was for sure no risk.

In summary, you need not be worried at all, do not need to be tested, and if you have a regular sex partner, you can safely continue your normal sexual practices without fear of transmitting HIV.

I hope this has been helpful. Best wishes--  HHH, MD