hiv blood worried!!

[richardhuang]

Dear  experts,
I just cut my hand bleeding with the door handle in the office, it was very sharp in someplace. I just worrid as one of my colleague was also got cut there just now i guess less then one minutes. I am afraid the same place left some of his blood and I got cut at the same place. Is this blood to blood expose and has risk?

I just read in this forum the hiv will not infect once it expose to air, but what about hiv blood?

Thanks you very much.

[little_new]

i am scared because i washed my injury in cdc's toilet. i dont know if there any blood or liquid left by hiv pos people.

[richardhuang]

thanks for your reply, I understand if  expose to air and enough time say several minutes, the virus become inactive. But I just concern when the time of expose to air is not long enough, such as less then one minute, will the hiv blood still not active to infect? to ask clearly, the question is, the blood become not able to infect immediately once expose to air or not? In normal condition such as at room.

[BeStrong_]

Hi,
The incident you describe is not a risk of transmission. As you correctly posted the virus becomes inactive when it is exposed to air.
Take care