Can Rash appear 4-5 days after exposure to HIV blood?

[yy2010]

I m a healthcare worker. I was exposed to HIV blood from a patient who was getting a burrhole. I was splashed with blodd. I had facial mask that had a tranparent part on the upper side. But I had blood on my forehead where skin seemed intact. I was wearing short trousers. So the nonintact skin just below my legs were exposed to air .
I rushed to water and foam soap immediately. under the transparent screen I had glasses. They were not blooded. Then I irrigated my eyes too just incase I had blood and did nor recognize it at that time. I looked at my feet, there weretiny blood dots on my shoes but I could not see in the dim light very well whether I had really blood on my nonintact parts. My trousers were spotless and I also soaped my neck and my ankles and my feet as quickly as possible. I did not see apparent blood on my ankles and nonintact parts.

The question is: This is the 5 th day. I have a rash red with raised margins. it starts on my right shoulder going down towards my trunk about 8 cm in length and 2 cm wide. It is burnng. No othe rlesions. I have never had urticaria in my life. There was no irritants causing this. I had worn my hanbag on the other site. I am worried:(((((( Can rash appear this soon?? My brother who is also doc said it was because I am anxious. That I have developed hives. ı never did before. And this one is localised. Has anyone know about rash appearing that soon???? Though I think that I washed with foam soap immediately and I saw no visible blood in the dimlight can I have caught HİV?grateful for answers.

[Teak]

No suprise you didn't have a risk.

[yy2010]

Hi everyone,

It has been 3 months 10 days. I have had an Eliza and it is negative!
So what I have went through is just a simple tinea versicolor and sore throats(that recurred 3 times). I hope everyone has a haapy ending. Though I did not have a real risk I was very anxious. Thanks to everyone on this forum, who answer questions and help people who have noone to talk to.

[flow1987]

If you look up Acute HIV Infection and the HIV article itself on Wikipedia, it says that it takes 2 to 4 weeks for the HIV virus to incubate inside of your body. I have never heard of it incubating as fast as 5 days.

There is not a doubt in my mind that what is happening to you is NOT being caused by HIV. A person who is experienced with infectious diseases and molecular medicine should be able to tell you this as well (my primary care physician specialized in molecular medicine).

[yy2010]

Thanks for the reply. I had a facial mask that covered my eyes and also my glasses. But somehow I had it on my forehead. İntact skin.
But then I realized that I had two very little dots of blood on my yellow shoes too. I had a lot of new lesions on my ankles because of obsessive itching and a 24 hour red wet wound without a scab. I did not see any blood on mylesions. But I am really depressed. The man had high viral load.Though I know that large volume blood is needed even if there was splash of blood I feel depressed.  Because I had first a red lesion which turned out to be pytriasis versicolor, then a runny nose with a real sore throat. Then the sore throat came back on the 15th day.

[LIZZIE LOU]

and exactly "where" do you think your exposure was?  seems to me that you simply got blood on intact skin...am i missing something?  hiv doesnt just seep into your skin...and if you were a healthcare worker, you should know that.

[yy2010]

Why has nobody replied me? I was really anxious. I got a scraping and KOH prep next day and yeast cells and pseudohyphae were seen.  2 dermatologists, told it was pytriasis versicolor, at first sight without hesitation.
I had applied oil on my skin, and the weather had been so hot and humid this summer and I thought it was because of this.

Then I started to have a wild running nose, sore throat.No muscle pain and listlessness. No swollen glands . No fever. It is all over too now.

Since nobody bothers to answer me, at least I can write here the developments and try to be helpful to those who are searching for info.

[yy2010]

Until I saw this 2 hours ago, I was telling myself that I had no visible exposure other than my intact forehead. I had nothing to be scared. I am very scared now. Does anyone think that I should be tested for P24?