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Risk?
Hi,
I have read similar questions to events like this or more/less exposure incidents, answers range from no risk to slight risk.
My story is:
While I was intoxicated I visited a "strip club" where the worker invited me to a private room, proceeded to put on a show and rub her vagina, and ask me if I would pay to have sex. I did not.
What happened next is what concerned me, she got up to try and get me to change my mind, and in the process she would have touched my hand. That, in itself, I know is not a risk.
However, the next morning when I woke up I noticed I had a small cut on a knuckle of my finger with some dry blood around it, which would have came from the cut. It must have happened around the same time the night before, because as i left the "strip club" I wiped my hands with hand sanitiser I had in my pocket and it stung my finger, so the cut must have just happened around that time.
I did not have sex or oral sex or finger her. The only exposure was that she may have touched my hand, and I cut my knuckle around the same time.
I have read reports saying that fingering with a cut is not even a risk, which would put my mind at ease, but other reports that vaginal secretions in contact with a fresh cut may be a risk. I do not understand the difference, and I worry that I may have had a risky situation?
I would like to have your expert opinion on this please.
1 week later I did come down with a cold/mild flu symptoms.
I am hoping I can get my mind put at ease or to get your expert advise. I hope it was no risk.
Thank you.
I have read similar questions to events like this or more/less exposure incidents, answers range from no risk to slight risk.
My story is:
While I was intoxicated I visited a "strip club" where the worker invited me to a private room, proceeded to put on a show and rub her vagina, and ask me if I would pay to have sex. I did not.
What happened next is what concerned me, she got up to try and get me to change my mind, and in the process she would have touched my hand. That, in itself, I know is not a risk.
However, the next morning when I woke up I noticed I had a small cut on a knuckle of my finger with some dry blood around it, which would have came from the cut. It must have happened around the same time the night before, because as i left the "strip club" I wiped my hands with hand sanitiser I had in my pocket and it stung my finger, so the cut must have just happened around that time.
I did not have sex or oral sex or finger her. The only exposure was that she may have touched my hand, and I cut my knuckle around the same time.
I have read reports saying that fingering with a cut is not even a risk, which would put my mind at ease, but other reports that vaginal secretions in contact with a fresh cut may be a risk. I do not understand the difference, and I worry that I may have had a risky situation?
I would like to have your expert opinion on this please.
1 week later I did come down with a cold/mild flu symptoms.
I am hoping I can get my mind put at ease or to get your expert advise. I hope it was no risk.
Thank you.
Best Answer
No risk from what you describe--for 2 reasons---the first is that HIV becomes inactive once outside the body--the second reason is that HIV transmission always occurs inside the body never outside it.
Correct and because the blood inside the syringe has not been exposed to air.It's still active.You had no risk.
Ok thanks.
Is the reason why needles are a risk because it goes directly into the veins?
Is the reason why needles are a risk because it goes directly into the veins?
No it isn't a risk. HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
"HIV is also transmitted via blood to blood contact from gaping wounds like car accidents--trauma & also needlestick injuries in healthcare settings. "
With the potential of contact from her vaginal secretions to a cut (blood) on my hand, is this risk not similar?
With the potential of contact from her vaginal secretions to a cut (blood) on my hand, is this risk not similar?
HIV is also transmitted via blood to blood contact from gaping wounds like car accidents--trauma & also needlestick injuries in healthcare settings.
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