Sigh. these questions have been anwered. Asking them again is a waste of time. the answers will not change. You are not at risk from the scenarios you describe. EWH
My follow up should read:
Last follow up:
The second splash scenario...the virus wouldnt survive a week on the sink surface, correct? How long would it survive?
Also: The mouthwash was Listerine...so fairly alcholic. Any risk for HIV to survive?
Thanks
Alan
The mouthwash was Listerine...so fairly alcholic. Any risk?
Last follow up:
The second splash scenario...the virus wouldnt survive a week on the sink surface, correct? How long would it survive?
Thanks
Alan
I apologise. thanks for your answer. I will not go for additional testing
You need to be more patinet. This site is not manned 24/7.
Still no risk. EWH
For the first exposure, you state:
"Further, HIV is not transmitted by touching, even if there is a small amount of blood present on the surface that it touching you."
My concern was that the small amount touched a small (bleeding cut). Still no risk? I just want to make sure that even IF the nurse had someone elses HIV+ blood and touched my cut, this would be no-risk?
Thanks for Clarifying
Alan
For the first exposure, you state:
"Further, HIV is not transmitted by touching, even if there is a small amount of blood present on the surface that it touching you."
My concern was that the small amount touched a small (bleeding cut). Still no risk? I just want to make sure that even IF the nurse had someone elses HIV+ blood and touched my cut, this would be no-risk?
Thanks for Clarifying
Alan
Welcome to the Forum. the short answer is that neither of these scenarios presents any risk for HIV or warrants testing. In each situation, were you to become infected, it would be the first such situation in which this occurred. Breaking them down concern-by-concern:
1. Lancets, needles and syringes are disposable, designed so that they cannot be re-used and personnel receive extensive safely training. Not a risk. Further, HIV is not transmitted by touching, even if there is a small amount of blood present on the surface that it touching you.
2. Mouthwash typically has low concentrations of alcohol in it, is too acidic, and has too few minerals (sodium, chloride, potassium, etc) for HIV to even be able to survive in it. The same is true for tap water. for this reason, had virus somehow gotten into the material that splashed you, there would be no living virus present in the unlikely situation that contaminated material had been introduced into it.
Soap and water kill the virus almost immediately.
Neither of these situation warrant any concern or testing. I hope my comments are helpful to you. EWH