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Please help! HIV WAX SCARE

Please help! HIV WAX SCARE

Hello,

I recently had a bikini wax in Thailand. After the wax I realised that she had been double dipping the big wooden spatula into the same pot and this pot looked like it had been used MANY times before (with any number of HIV infected people).  So I am now wondering about the chances of HIV infection and whether I could have caught anything else through the wax she was using. During the wax my skin was obviously broken (and bleeding slightly) so there was a chance of the substance going into by body.  I have heard that bacteria can survive or even thrive in hot wax- however this wax was cold - does this make a difference?
I am very scared at the prospect of having HIV or any other infection (STI/STD/other type of infection or virus) through the use of this wax and spatula.

Could anyone help me please!!
Emma
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Oh please.
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Teak please explain your reply??
Does this mean that you think I am just being a stupid worrier and I will not have contracted any disease or infection (such as HIV)?
I understand that you may have dealt with this issue many times before but surely you can understand that when these thoughts occur to someone for the first time (and they know very little about the issue) that it can be very worrying!

Thank you.
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and thank you for you quick reply - it's great to know experts are out there that can help so rapidly
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