Can you get HIV through a bandaid??

[alwaysworriedaboutgerms]

I cut my finger with a knife while cutting fruit. I washed it and put on a bandaid. Some blood went though bandaid. Later used public rest room and noticed a used band aid by the sink. I did not touch bandaid, but while driving home noticed new brownish spot on my bandaid. Is it possible that the blood on used bandaid could have gotten contaiminted in my dried blood and cut? Worried about HIV transmission. Could I have contracted HIV through my bandaid, since my cut was bleeding?? please help, very worried!!

[alwaysworriedaboutgerms]

Thank you for the reassurances. I appreciate your feedback.

[mkh9]

Hi,
From the CDC.

"No one has been infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface."

mkh9

[mkh9]

No, you had your bandage covered . Even if it got on the outside HIV dies really quickly in the environment. Also, it wouldn't have gotten through your bandage to you cut even so. I"m not worried about it or I would tell you. Also, you don't even know if that person had HIV. But the key is HIV doesn't last long in the environment either.
mkh9

[alwaysworriedaboutgerms]

What if the person bled on sink faucet or door handle, and then I touched those surfaces with my cut finger? Is it possible that the brown spots I noticed about 10 minutes after leaving the bathroom was the person's blood from faucet or handle? Would it be possible for transmission of HIV if I didn't was my hands again after noticing the spots?

[alwaysworriedaboutgerms]

Thank you for your response. So you do not think there was any way for any possible blood from other bandaid, could have mixed in with my blood or gotten into my cut? I'm trying not to obsess or wondering I need to get tested?

[mkh9]

If you didn't touch the dirty bandaid how could you get exposure to HIV? So no you could get it that way. Usually, when you have a cut that bleeds it turns brown after  a while. That is probably what you noticed. The virus doesn't jump of the band aid and land on your bandaid. It isn't airborne. In anycase it was on the outside of the bandaid and not in direct contact with your skin.

You have nothing to worry about by this incident.
mkh9